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Re:Tesla’s former CTO is building a giant lithium-ion batter... by late2part on Saturday August 29, 2020 @12:48PM (#24317401)
You said:

1. Mandate that every mass produced device with a li-ion battery have a simple mechanism to remove the battery

How do you propose to mandate this?

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Re:Tesla’s former CTO is building a giant lithium-ion batter... by WalterSear on Saturday August 29, 2020 @12:53PM (#24317443)
You make the sale of non-replaceable battery devices too onerous in California.
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Re:Tesla’s former CTO is building a giant lithium-ion batter... by jedberg on Saturday August 29, 2020 @02:11PM (#24318167)
Create a law that says that if the battery is not user replaceable then the manufacturer must replace it for free when its charge capacity drops below 90% of its original capacity.

That would shift the market pretty quickly towards user replaceable batteries.

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