MIPS has been bankrupt multiple times and is now defunct but I still buy routers with their chips in them. The problem with current EVs is that they're smartph

MIPS has been bankrupt multiple times and is now defunct but I still buy routers with their chips in them. The problem with current EVs is that they're smartphones with wheels. Only the manufacturer can service them. So you can't buy their product without betting on the company's future like you can with, say, an open-architecture general-purpose computer (those are getting rarer too). Bring back the original Tesla Roadster and Nissan Leaf.