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Electric Cars Are Suddenly Becoming Affordable (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Electric vehicles were always supposed to be cheaper than ICEs. They're just giant batteries. All the sophistication is in the software which is trivial to reproduce.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And I honestly don't want most of it. I just want something to get me to work and back. I don't need a big screen with lots of doodads, I just need to know charge level and whatnot. I don't even need to find charging stations, I'll just charge at home.

Make a stripped down, simple EV for cheap and I'll probably get it.

[–] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was referring more to the battery management software.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Ah, ok. I thought you were talking about the AI features, fancy cameras, etc that cars ship with these days.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 4 months ago

And humans haven't found a way to make good batteries, to date