It is not about all that fancy internet-connected GPS attached entertainment systems and ECUs - they are easily hacked and removed.
It is about much more evil thing.
I already wrote about energy yoke on your neck.
I know, you already get it.
With ICE(Internal Combustion Engine) car, you could easily stock fuel for a bad day, you could grow plants and use their oil in your diesel, you could build wood gas generator and run on wood, you could even run your gasoline engine on methane from cow shit. Really, nobody could stop you from rinding your ICE car when you need it.
That is not the case with electric cars. You charge them from centralized electricity network, that could be turned off in a second, if they want to stop any travels.
And charging electric car using home devices like gasoline generators or some solar panels or whatever is not like filling a tank from barrel, and even not like starting a fire in wood gas generator. In the best situation (gasoline/diesel generator) It will take a day to get only few hundred miles and you still need fuel to do it. And it is much more fuel per mile.
So, buying electric car you completely tie yourself to the good will of giant electric corporation / authorities.
And in emergnecy, say, when you will need to ride away, they just turn off electricity few days before. You have a car, but you can't fuel it, at least in reasonable time.
So, electric cars is not about all that ecology crap, and is not about some innovation things, they are just another way to take out some independency from people.
I know, sounds like I'm a Luddite, but that is not true. Really, electric cars is older that ICE ones, And still, just like at the beginning, they are just fancy overpriced and overengineered toys that could not withstand a real-life competition with ICE cars.
Ehh. Not the best argument imo. Designed obsolescence has already been at play in the normal automotive industry for decades. OCD gearheads can get more life out of their vehicles but your average oil change and tire rotation suburbanites will likely have catastrophic failure of some kind should they keep and use their vehicles longer than the average 6 years most new cars are kept for nowadays. Not to mention parts designed to fail that we all accept like tires and bulbs.
Good point. Designed obsolescence is a way of control too.
However, in most cases there is a workaround. Not simple, but absolutely possible. They put intentionally weakened parts into devices they sold you. Say, they began to use plastic fittings in car engines that will crack after few years. Make the same part from metal, and it will last forever. Yes, that will take some your time, money and knowledge, but it is absolutely possible. In perfect world you would not need to, but we are in something closely resembling hell. So, it is not a huge price to get rid from one of torture that bastards think out for you.
It's conversations like this that remind me that the light bulb cabal was a very real thing. The Phoebus Cartel.
And light bulb conspiracy definitely was not a sole one.
Again, there was a simple solution for US. Instead of bying US one, buy 4 times more powerful bulb made for European 220V, and that's all. At US 110V working with 4 times less than nominal power it will last forever.
In Russia, were we have 220V, we bought two bulbs with 4 times wattage and connected them in series.
For LED bulbs it is even easier, check "DIY Dubai LED bulb". Nearly any LED bulb could be tuned to last many times longer.
They had to find a filament that would last a while, but not too long and would eventually burn out. After trial and error they landed on tungsten. And I can't think of a single LED I've had that has ever gone out. Not saying it never happens but I can't think of one.
Sounding mighty anti-semitic there chief
I drive a 2009 suv and the alternator kept blowing because the cooling pump wasn't working. 3 mechanics it took until the last one (dealership) found the problem. But after changing that the car runs as smooth as ever. Idk where you get 6 years from.
6 years is the average time people keep new vehicles. Perhaps leasing is averaged into that as well.