• PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Way to not address literally any part of my post. I didn’t even bring up the problems of the original roadster. I said that it IS NOT SUPPORTED anymore. Meaning that it’s life was <15years, which is NOT “far longer” then any ICE vehicle.

    Then you just gloss over the meat of the post which is that batteries are an incredibly expensive and wasteful part of the cost of EV ownership, and that problem still hasn’t been addressed in >20 years of EV development. You think we can just “swap batteries” as if that isn’t an absurdly expensive procedure that most car owners cannot do on their own.

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      1 year ago

      What does not supported anymore mean? It uses the same charge port I think. So no updates like a regular car? And I guess no brand battery swap if it dies? Has this happened a lot?

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        1 year ago

        Current EVs are software driven and wirelessly connected. (It doesn’t have to be that way, but all EVs that exist in the market today are.) This means that if the vendor stops supporting the car with updates that eventually things like Charging won’t work anymore, and possibly other features. Not because their is any mechanical reason for them not to work, but because of the software reliance between charging stations and the car you are driving. It would be like trying to use Lemmy with Internet Explorer 5. It won’t work. Again it doesn’t HAVE to be that way, but Car Manufactures don’t want to sell cars anymore they wants to sell cars as a service, and the software support sun setting is part of that strategy.

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      1 year ago

      I didn’t bring up [problem], I changed the wording to a [different problem] lol.

      Batteries improve, you already have Tesla working on a million mile battery. Recycling will come, you’re just wahhhhhhhh it’s not here yet. It’s all wahhhhhh it’s not 100% right from the very start of the literal first production vehicle wahhhh!! You may continue your wahhhh rage, that’s all it is. Peace.