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Re:Long Life Vehicle by dsfyu404ed on Monday December 31, 2018 @01:58PM (#18796229)
Not to mention that nobody makes an EV that isn't chock full of bespoke electronics. Eventually the sheer number of components and MTBF will just start biting you in the ass all the time.
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Re:Long Life Vehicle by elif on Monday December 31, 2018 @02:40PM (#18796467)
My leaf has manual seats, manual headlights, no cruise control... my 10-year-older volvo has all of those, plus various transmission modes, oil control systems, exhaust management systems, engine timing controller, a whole vacuum pump control system...

which bespoke electronics do you mean which are unique to EV? and do you really think their failure rate compensates for all those ancillary systems made redundant?

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Re:Long Life Vehicle by Paperweight on Monday December 31, 2018 @04:48PM (#18797254)
You know, Teslas. Marketed to rich tech geeks resulting in a computer that also happens to be a car.
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