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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 15:01:45 JST Rich Felker

   Business idea: buying Teslas from people who want to get them off the street/market and repurposing the batteries and other useful parts to sell, selling rest as scrap.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 16:24:51 JST Rich Felker

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     • Alexand

     @djg Or transplants into electrifying classic cars.

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     Alexand (djg@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 16:24:52 JST Alexand

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     @dalias

     Those motors make wicked golf cart engines, but the batteries are too heavy

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 16:25:51 JST Rich Felker

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     • LisPi

     @lispi314 Batteries and motors should be. Electronics, hell no.

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     LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 16:25:52 JST LisPi

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     @dalias Are they reliable enough to do that?
     
     Like, it's a Musk-infected company, I'd be worried.
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     Florian 'floe' Echtler (floe@hci.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 16:30:58 JST Florian 'floe' Echtler

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     @dalias If you rip out the LTE modem and cut off the logos, they might still make for useable cars?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 16:30:58 JST Rich Felker

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     • Florian 'floe' Echtler

     @floe No, even the door locks are IoT shit, and everything is drive by wire, which is utterly unsafe. No physical linkage of steering wheel to rack, brake pedal to brake actuators, etc.