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  • Yeah and that's why I'm not advocating for 100 year cars.

    I'd be pretty happy with 20 years to, but 10 just feels like planned obsolescence.

    I also messed around with the math very loosly, and only accounting for crashes that total a car, they could be expected to go 20 years or more on average.

    And that's now with all the terrible driving that happens, especially at night. With slight deacrease in accident frequncy that number can increase a lot.

    So maybe 30 is a bit much for now, but I'd still like an ev that would claim to last 20 yeara.

  • But you still have it backwards.

    We could very easily design and build a car that lasts 30 years. But we don't, because manufacturers don't want them to last that long.

    Evs don't have transmissions, or complicated engines, and the wear on brakes is much less with regenerative braking.

    Other things like air conditioning and interior coverings could be easily servicable

    Why should the life of an ev by limited by its battery?

  • Do really need need 4?

    If you cant get by on 2, you might have less power, but you can get better efficiency. With better efficiency you can have a smaller battery for the same range and reduce some of your increased cost that way.

  • The newer technology at that time was cars and roads, and many European countries did try the American system of roads and suburbs.

    Its just that most of them realized it wad a bad idea around 20 years ago and started rethinking their cities.

    Many city centers were even turned into parking lots like American ones.

    Again cities arent supposed to be static, and normally they grow denser, rather than sprawling.

    The problem with American cities is partly zoning, and partly nimbyism, where people don't want their places to change.

    And sprawl sucks for pretty much everyone. Less arable land for farming, poorer anmeties, longer travel times, and finally huge transportation costs. Cars are by far the most costly method of travel, both personally and for governments.

  • It's a good point that cities aren't built anymore, and that's part of the problem. Our population has grown drastically, but we don't build hardly any new infrastructure for them outside of roads. So traffic is terrible despite enormous amounts of money from both government and people.

    Cities aren't supposed to be static, they're supposed to grow and adapt to the needs of those that live there. There is a large need for non-car transport that is either ignored or sidelined for cars.

    I'm not talking about 90% empty land, that's not where people are.

    When the car was invented, governments had little issue buildozing entire neighborhoods for highways, but now that some places are realizing that's a bad decision, its really hard to undo.

  • What's so mind boggling stupid to me is that full evs are mechanically so much simpler.

    Their reliability should be fantastic.

    But no oems cheap out on things like contactors in the battery.

    Batteries should also be treated as consumable. Easily replaceable, maybe even in parts.

    Electric motors seem like they should last forever too.

    But nope, instead we get skimped cars with too big batteries, and seemingly no money spent anywhere else.

    Manufacturers need to remember that planned obselesence only works when you know what your doing, and right now they early don't.

  • A good bet is alternative media, things like kurzgesagt, verisitium or other science outreach programs.

    The other thing is education, engage with his education, and teach him yourself to think critically.

    And I hate to say it to say it, but religion conditions kids to brainwashing. Even if not extremists.

    Feel comfortable pointing out flaws in Christianity and question them with him.

    And lastly, try not to be argumentitive. You need to carefully tease him out of these beliefs, not destroy them.

    That would feel like you are attacking him and will probably be counterproductive.

  • Cars are fucking terrible for the economy.

    Possible productive hours are wasted with long commutes, because driving takes effort and work.

    They caused us to build urban areas spread out in a density that is not self sustaining.

    Its horrible for the environment, and climate change is gonna be absolutely great for the economy in the next decades. /s

    Not too mention all the money and engineerimg that went into the technology of ICE cars that's now obsolete.

  • We have reactor designs that use already spent fuel, we just aren't building them. We have enough spent fuel for centuries, and afterwards the reprocessed fuel is much less radioactive, and only for a few decades.