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Re:Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo by carl_dr on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @06:39PM (#33809688)
Wait until all cars have massive battery packs in them, and the car has no value for the 2nd owner when they come to sell it.

They will either have to pay thousands to replace the batteries before selling, or sell it with old batteries with the new owner knowing they’ll need replacing.

(Average 10 year old car as of Sept 2022 in the UK is £6100 - pretty much the same as a replacement battery pack.)

The whole secondhand car market will be fucked.

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Re:Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo by jagger27 on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @06:54PM (#33809895)
It’s already environmentally worse to buy a newly built electric car than it is to keep your current gas one (or buy a used one).

The battery wear problem only makes this worse.

The real solution is of course to heavily reduce our reliance on cars but highways and stroads keep being built.

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