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Re:Bosch gives go-ahead for volume production of silicon car... by yellowapple on Saturday December 04, 2021 @06:04AM (#29440104)
Today's new cars are tomorrow's used cars.

...that is, provided that said new cars are built with longevity in mind instead of planned obsolescence. Targeting subsidies toward EVs that maximize user-repairability and mandating right-to-repair would hopefully encourage that.

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Re:Bosch gives go-ahead for volume production of silicon car... by tsimionescu on Saturday December 04, 2021 @09:10AM (#29440914)
Today's new cars only become tomorrow's new cars if the owners keep buying new cars.

The purpose should be to make car manufacture a smaller industry, and have people buy a car once every, say, 20-40 years, using the same car in between.

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Re:Bosch gives go-ahead for volume production of silicon car... by ekianjo on Sunday December 05, 2021 @12:29AM (#29446982)
EVs are not made at all to be repaired by their users. Today's new cars become tomorrow's junk.
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Re:Bosch gives go-ahead for volume production of silicon car... by yellowapple on Sunday December 05, 2021 @03:08AM (#29447641)
Hence the entire second paragraph of the comment above.
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