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Re:Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than e... by gnicholas on Saturday November 18, 2023 @06:02PM (#38325681)
I don't follow. You think there won't be barely-trained people working in auto shops? The people who put put on tires and do alignments would be pretty similar to the people who do oil changes. They'll just do oil changes in addition to putting on tires.
Re:Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than e... by vel0city on Saturday November 18, 2023 @06:26PM (#38326009)
Yeah, and go to a shop like that and see their prices compared to the places that only do oil changes. They're usually twice the labor price compared to low cost oil change places in my experience.

Even just putting the car on the lift and jacking it up is already more work, requires more training, and has more risk than having someone in the pit at a fast oil change place.

Re:Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than e... by bluGill on Sunday November 19, 2023 @01:43PM (#38336156)
A pit is more risk than a lift. Both have their dangers, but a lift is easy to inspect and tends to have redundant safeties so that it doesn't fail and kill people. A pit by contrast can fill with deadly gas (from the exhaust of the car) that you can't tell are there until someone passes out.