The question for them, when they tell you about how good electric cars are on the environment is to ask them, in environmental terms, about the ‘Embodied Energy’ that it costs the environment to produce those same cars let alone their life cycle costs....!
And let’s not get started on the human cost that it brings.....!
The car bodies and motors could go for a lot longer than an internal combustion vehicle if the batteries were replaced as the tech improves, but that might require standardization or open source design and that might lower profits.
In the UK we used to have "Milk floats". They were open-backed electric milk delivery vans, usually fibreglass bodied. Those things lasted 40 years with not too much maintenance.
You know that it's all about profit and control or cars would be modular and parts standardized like on a PC. Then we could repair and customize them using best vendors for parts. But that might lower profits.
The question for them, when they tell you about how good electric cars are on the environment is to ask them, in environmental terms, about the ‘Embodied Energy’ that it costs the environment to produce those same cars let alone their life cycle costs....!
And let’s not get started on the human cost that it brings.....!
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It's frustrating.
The car bodies and motors could go for a lot longer than an internal combustion vehicle if the batteries were replaced as the tech improves, but that might require standardization or open source design and that might lower profits.
In the UK we used to have "Milk floats". They were open-backed electric milk delivery vans, usually fibreglass bodied. Those things lasted 40 years with not too much maintenance.
You know that it's all about profit and control or cars would be modular and parts standardized like on a PC. Then we could repair and customize them using best vendors for parts. But that might lower profits.
Right to Repair might fix it eventually.