Charlie Stross on Nostr: We haven't had electric cars long enough for them to fully depreciate. But they can't ...
We haven't had electric cars long enough for them to fully depreciate. But they can't depreciate the way gas-burners do, because an EV with a depleted battery is useless. You have to fit a new-enough battery to your old beater or it won't go anywhere, and the price of a second-hand battery is set by its recycling value: lithium isn't cheap. So, no more £500 good-enough-to-run-for-a-year old cars. So, no more cars for poor people. So, end of mass automobile culture.
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