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Samsung’s 20-year-life EV battery runs 600 miles on 9-minute charge (interestingengineering.com)
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[–] spongebue 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's a battery. You put it in the car, and it powers it. How much support does the manufacturer need to provide that can't be baked into the initial cost?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

gestures around Products as a service in general isn't needed, but it's done anyways. Single player games don't need to be always-online and subscription-based. Same with movies. Same with cars. But in the world we live in, everything is becoming X-as-a-service. In this case, it wouldn't surprise me a bit if they purposely built in a chip that would disable or otherwise limit the battery unless the ~~purchaser~~ client continued paying the subscription fee.