• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      15 minutes ago

      They’re actually more reliable and money saved on gas and maintenance is much more than the price of changing the battery every 10 years.

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        11 minutes ago

        I mean, depends on the car you have. Outside of purchasing the vehicle, I haven’t spent 15k in the last decade of car ownership and that’s in AUD, so like 10k us. Pretty sure a new battery could cost more than that. Definitely the case for some though, especially if you have cheap electricity.

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        3 hours ago

        That doesn’t say they are unreliable, just that the tech that isn’t the basic car function is utter garbage a lot of the time. Can’t really disagree with that, fuck off with screens bigger than my laptop and give me my damn buttons back.