• SuiXi3D@fedia.io
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    5 days ago

    Could always do an EV conversion on your existing car. It’ll cost about as much as a new car, but you won’t have to deal with all the added BS around modern vehicles.

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      4 days ago

      Funny thing, that’s how I ended up with my current EV. I was pricing out an EV upgrade (taking an old EV, building it a new battery and adding fast charging), and for the price of just the raw battery components (batteries and BMS, no wire or anything), it was the price of my Bolt… But the bolt was done and cost no effort, and ended up being cheaper because I got a whole car for the price of the battery.

      Yeah, I don’t get the same privacy as an old car but like… I actually ended up liking this car a lot.

    • homik@slrpnk.net
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      5 days ago

      I expect in most of the world that isn’t wild west, you can’t. It would either be illegal because that’s no longer a car that has passed approval and/or you would need to register it as a new car and pay some astronomical sum for that.