Toyota plans to make electric car bodies in the same style as Tesla's "gigacasting." But the resulting EVs might be too hard to repair.

Toyota Will Adopt Tesla-Style Cast Bodies That Might Be Impossible to Fix::Toyota plans to make electric car bodies in the same style as Tesla's "gigacasting." But the resulting EVs might be too hard to repair.

  • betwixthewires@lemmy.basedcount.comEnglish
    5115·
    1 year ago

    They want to make everything impossible to fix. They want to turn our land into landfills and fleece us of our income.

    Climate change or no, electric fan or no, anyone with self respect would rather buy a 1990 beater than a new car, they're user and owner hostile.

      • vivavideri@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        1 year ago

        That's what 2000s cars are for! Anything like… mid 90s and beyond is guaranteed airbags, and they mandated tire pressure sensors in what, 2008?

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.oneEnglish
      72·
      1 year ago

      100% this. I don't like supporting big oil, but at the end of the day I value the ability to repair a vehicle at an affordable cost.

      Things like a 20k battery replacement? Hell no thank you, I'll grab another aspirated one with 100000 on the clock, and many more to go.

      • nxdefiant@startrek.websiteEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        13K ish for a model 3/Y. The X and S, that cost north of 80K after options, are in the 20K range for battery replacement.

        That said, the batteries have an 8 year /150Kish mile warranty that kicks in at 70% capacity retention. So even if it's functional but losing enough capacity, they'll replace it