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Why was there a regulation in place preventing this in the first place? I don’t get it.

• ponker 6y ago
  I expect that in many places it’s not legal to sell a new car that doesn’t drive out of the “box.”
• LeifCarrotson 6y ago
  How does it pass safety regulations without an integral part of the vehicle? How do they publish performance data if it can't move on itself? Not that those are insurmountable obstacles, but a law that says "You can't claim your vehicle does 200 miles on a charge if it doesn't include a battery" or "You can't claim your vehicle is safe in a frontal crash because the battery absorbs some of the energy except you're not including the battery" don't seem unreasonable.
  • gruez 6y ago
    Can't you just design/test it with OEM batteries, but allow the end user to buy it without the OEM batteries?
    • umeshunni 6y ago
      That's pretty much what this law allows now
• kumarvvr 6y ago
  There is no specific regulation, other than selling incomplete products as completed products. For example, its perfectly legal to advertise a car as saying its a car without engine. You just cannot advertise it in such a way that the viewer thinks he can buy the car and just enjoy it.
  • gruez 6y ago
    How's this any different than the situation with PC parts? You have CPU and GPU manufacturers advertising their products with images of games being played, yet you need to buy half a dozen other parts before you can start gaming.
    • blackoil 6y ago
      Its other way round, you can sell CPU / steering only, but you can't say you are selling a PC/Car without it.
• pengaru 6y ago
  It'd probably be treated as a kit car under the existing regulations, which I imagine means it wouldn't have a VIN assigned at time of sale. So this probably adds exceptions specifically for battery-less EVs to still get a VIN and be sold as a complete vehicle. Viewing this from a US perspective anyways...