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Re:Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Excessive D... by mywittyname on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @11:01AM (#21259133)
Telsa having trouble building reliable cars is not evidence of an industry-wide issue. There are tens of millions of cars on the road with decades old solid state components that are in perfect operation.
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Re:Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Excessive D... by anon73044 on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:15PM (#21260980)
"tens of millions" and "in perfect operation" doesn't quite jive with me but the numbers are mostly there.

For Toyota ~57 million vehicles from '02-'09 https://www.toyota-global.com/company/history_of_toyota/75ye...

For Honda ~23 million from '02-09 https://www.statista.com/statistics/267276/worldwide-automob...

Volkswagen group looked to be in between the two.

Didn't look for Ford or GM.

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Re:Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Excessive D... by mywittyname on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:30PM (#21261179)
There were 16 million new vehicles are sold last year in the US and there's 260 million registered vehicles on the road with a median age of nearly 12 years old.

To say that there's "tens of millions" of perfectly operational cars on the road in the US is really an understatement.

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