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There's plenty of dudes fixing batteries. Sometimes it's a faulty sensor, sometimes they swap a module out.
Gas takes 2 weeks to be unstable and unusable, you can charge at home and have it top up every night. Also you can go without charging for some days and charge it while shopping or going to the cinema.
Gas cars are also full of surveillance, down to owning the genetic material left in the car. I also drive a 15 year old car, but I'll soon switch to electric.
Gas is unusable after two weeks? I've let it sit for over a year with no issue.
I'm all for electric cars when they make sense, but come on.
Battery degradation is also nice because unlike any comparable issue in an ICE it is never fast or a surprise. Your not going to go out to your car one morning and find it won’t start because one of the hundreds of consumable parts in the engine cracked apart overnight.
Coming as someone who has watched rebuilds of both ICE engines and EV batteries, i’d say that both require about the same amount of work, though modern engines are a bit tougher and more finicky.
If it works for you have at it. It just won't work for me.