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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
by yellowapple 5y ago
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.
- tsimionescu 5y agoToday'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.
- ekianjo 5y agoEVs are not made at all to be repaired by their users. Today's new cars become tomorrow's junk.
- yellowapple 5y agoHence the entire second paragraph of the comment above.