Car vending machines. coming soon to the west from the east. why not just cut out the middle man altogether, Each person in the chain takes a slice and the consumer swallows the lot..
Thing is though what incentive is there for dealers to offer test drives if then you can just go direct to vw or carwow etc and get it cheaper..will it kill the market, i doubt it…As then it’s a monopoly
Imo The problem is batterylife and take a toyota prius for instance to replace one new from toyota costs around $6000, to get a recon one 2k but they only swapout the faultly cells and then the others go.. so is it worth it, causing it to be less effective sooner.
overtime.. every phone i ever had it was the battery that gave out it, will be the same with all these cars.. alot will not be worth fixing the older they get and the value decreases..
Plus the internet of things and smart energy means they will use those batteries to store and put back into the grid when needed, adding to the number of discharge cycles of which any battery suffers from and has a limit to how many times it can charge and discharge…