Fixing car and e-bike batteries saves money and resources, but challenges are holding back the industry

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 months ago

    But that will never happen because the EV manufacturers couldn’t charge ridiculous amounts of money for proprietary batteries.

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      10 months ago

      That why we need regulators. The market doesn’t magically deal with “Tragedy of the Commons”.

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          10 months ago

          No one lives in completely unregulated capitalism. Well, not willingly anyway. That kind of anarchy happens when countries collapse. But normally you quickly get a drug/war lord taking over setting their own (unfair) laws & regulation.

          It’s a constant battle of over/under regulation, regulatory capture, etc. But that’s how it should be in a dynamic world.

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            10 months ago

            I think they’re being sarcastic, but it’s annoying in its own way to repeat the lines that barely anyone actually believes

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              10 months ago

              There are no shortage of those who really believe that nonsense. In the UK, we literally had a pair of these loonatics running the country and economy for a few months. They tanked the pound in their short time before their own party pulled the plug under pressure of markets and donors losing money.