• Num10ck@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    in order to legally sell new cars in the US you have to supply replacement parts for a decade, last I heard.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Parts, sure. So, after a 3 month shipping wait from China you get a replacement battery or drive unit dropped at the end of your driveway on a pallet. Now what?

      I don’t think any buyers other than maybe the guy who runs the Aging Wheels channel are going to be willing to take apart their own Chinese EV and do major repairs to it. If no one works on it, or if they open a perfunctory couple of service centers that are all conveniently thousands of miles away from where you live, that’s not going to do you much good.

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      6 months ago

      Yes but like OP said the labor is the problem. You have to have shops willing to work on them unless you’re willing and ready to work on them yourself.