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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that the more electronics, the worse they age. The new electric vehicles have even more problems: usually the engine is designed to not be opened post-sale, or only with great difficulty. So having an electric battery or an engine problem (whatever it might be) essentially means you need to buy a new vehicle. It would be very costly to repair.

My basic petrol Japanese cars are 19 and 14 years old. They've been sitting out in my driveway, exposed to the elements, all this time. We drive them mainly for short distances, so they don't have a ton of mileage. Repairs have been minor so far.

I love the idea of "clean" energy, but not the omnipresence of electronics in a vehicle, or the reality that current battery technology is actually quite polluting. Not to mention that electric battery fires are much harder to put out than a regular fire. Plus the repair issues...

Don't know what to buy when our cars finally pass on.

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There aren't really engines in electric cars, so it's not totally clear what this means. Current battery technology becomes, in the aggregate, less polluting than gas cars are within a very short period of time. But the greenest option is usually to do what you're doing -- just not buying new cars -- so thanks for that![/quote]

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