• rabber@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    My 20 year old pickup will still be on the road when that EV is scrapped lol

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        17 hours ago

        Nah just trying to save folks from wasting their money. ALL new cars are junk, gas or EV

        EV is just a scam meant to bail the car industry out for a few more years

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      14 hours ago

      My 15 year old EV is still driving like new. I had the battery replaced last month, not because the battery didn’t work, but because newer batteries have much more range and are cheap enough to be worth the upgrade. I’m planning to keep driving it for at least another 20 years.

      This 100 year old EV is still driving with minimal maintenance. I don’t think EVs need to be scrapped particularly quickly.

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          13 hours ago

          The majority of early EV fires were from a single battery factory accidentally placing battery terminals too close together. This affected only Chevy Bolts, and has been fixed with a recall.

          Even including this data, combustion engine cars are over 60 times more likely to catch fire than EVs (1,529.9 fires per 100,000 vehicles for ICE vs 25.1 for EV).

          It looks like you’re the one who might need to start carrying around a fire extinguisher, just in case.

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          14 hours ago

          I’m pretty confident that if your vehicle caught fire you wouldn’t be able to put it out either way

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        17 hours ago

        It has more scratches than paint but it’s mechanically sound

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      17 hours ago

      must be nice to live somewhere without salt

      I wish I could keep cars more than 20 years old

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        17 hours ago

        Yeah I came from a salt region and moved to a no salt region and man it’s incredible. My Chevy has almost no rust, totally unheard of where I come from