It looks like I got my info mixed up, thank you for the correction.

Just for reference a Fiat 500 is roughly 9.75 feet long.

Yeah, but I was thinking more parents buying a console for their kids. Like oh little Jimmy can do his homework on this thing too, great I didn’t have to buy him another computer. Or imagine if Microsoft put windows on Xboxes, every office building would be full of them lol.

Forza Motorsport will do 4k60 on Series X for example. Most Racing and Sports games will do 4k60 on modern consoles since they’re easy to render.

I think the biggest thing would be getting a PC with decent specs for $500. Why would anybody buy a Dell desktop or the like ever again? Like even if you don’t game and need to do office work it’d probably be the best option.

Racing and Sports games for sure.

But… that’s the exact opposite of what actually happened. The PSN requirement was so buggy they had to disabled it for the game to work.

I didn’t think that’s necessarily true. They were contracted to make the game by Sony and when they started probably had no idea it would even be sold on PC.

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If you live by a Micro Center, their house brand is pretty good.

Any debloating you do will probably be reversed by updates eventually. Have you considered installing Linux on their computer as well assuming they use it for just web browsing. Maybe just get them something that runs ChromeOS even 🤷🏻

These are legit.

But only in regards of nuclear bombs.

And your mom (⁠⌐⁠■⁠-⁠■⁠)

Don’t forget to take an aspirin for your arthritis grandpa lol

The Steam Deck does have RT Cores, might as well use them for something lol

Depends on which ones you buy and when.

How much does it cost to replace an EV battery on average?

It’s very easy to look at 10+ year old batteries and extrapolate.

There aren’t a ton of 10+ year old EVs is my problem. 10 years ago EV were still a pretty niche thing. If you have that kind of info I’d love to take a look though.

That’s what we call a “loaded question”. There’s all kinds of companies.

I definitely wouldn’t call that a loaded question. How do you figure that it is?

That’s still at max, 6 years of data. Am I reading that right? But, to be fair there’s no indication of a dramatic drop off, at worst that data is incomplete.

I wouldn’t be worried about buying a brand new EVs. My problem is that I exclusively buy 3-5 year old cars because that’s the most cost effective way to buy them. So if I bought a 5 year old EV and owned it for another 5 years it’s a 10 year old EV which is the very edge of the data is be able to find. That kind of unknown is a bit unsettling along with some other personal use case issues.

Thank you for the info though.

Last I checked an engine and transmission rebuild combined cost less than replacing just the batteries on an EV. An ICE might need a rebuild every 20+ years but, we don’t even have 20 years of EV data to look at to compare.

No, I don’t follow EVs super close. What brands allow this? What third party batteries can I buy and how much do they cost and how do they compare to OEM batteries?

1. I’m wary of any data coming from Tesla themselves.
2. That’s kind of comparing apples and oranges. Also an engine rebuild is also considerably cheaper than battery replacements.
3. That link sounds more theory than reality. A lot of “if” and “may” used in that article.
4. 100,000 miles over ten years isn’t much. Reaching that amount of miles is considered less than the minimum for modern cars. And it’s only one example, I’ve seen examples of the exact opposite.
5. How old and how many miles did the EVs you’ve owned have when you sold them?

There’s not a ton of data on older EVs so it’s kind of hard get a clear picture on their longevity. I know they’re constantly improving and I’ll eventually get one, just not today 🤷🏻.

I think the cost to replace the battery is an issue.