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Gas nears $5. Why aren’t electric vehicles selling in the US?
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For starters there is little to no unified architecture for electric cars. Everything is more or less locked down and proprietary. Secondly cars, like all other modern electronics, are filled with bloat. They are heavy, inefficient, impossible to maintain. All of this in the pot makes them fucking expensive.
Make an open source platform. Build electric cars where you have basic spartan componentry. Parts bin cars. Knobs and switches. Rolling windows. Replaceable parts. Easy access. 2000lbs with fuck you acceleration. Price is at 20 grand. Buy the car. Own the car. Take it to a shop of your choice, or fix it on your own.
Do this and there would ONLY be electric cars on the roads in 10 years.