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Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM (arstechnica.com)

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Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM::The platform was to use GM's Ultium batteries.

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[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I don't know why you think this, but there are plenty of EV taxis out there with 200k miles on them.

And they don't need oil changes, timing belts, spark plugs, idlers, water pumps or primary belts. And their brakes last easily twice as long thanks to regenerative braking.

So, after about 300k miles, you recycle your battery pack and get a 3rd party one installed for $5k-$10k and go for another 200k miles.