I wish I could afford to do that with all the expensive-to-purcase-and-repair stuff I've bought over the years - items that have turned out to be expensive lemons and a waste of money. Same goes for all the badly designed junk where user ergonomics was never considered as a part of the design plan.
A while ago it occurred to me to put my reasonably large collection (already stored in anticipation) in the carpark of a industrial estate I've access to and run over/smash them with the forklift with a camera crew to hand (I've even a favorite cameraman in mind and he's already been worded up).
...And I've special plans for inkjet printers that take forever setting themselves up before deciding to print.
Given the terrible dropoff in after sales service offered by manufacturers, especially so over the last few decades, it seems to me that this form of 'destruction' shaming is a very legitimate way of getting attention to the problem that's otherwise not possible to ordinary consumers. Platforms such as YouTube are ideal for this as the audience is potentially very large and thus manufacturers would have to take note of the bad publicly.
However, I reckon such spectacles shouldn't just become circuses - or means for manufacturers to seek revenge on those who dared post such content. Thus, if such destruction spectacles are to achieve anything meaningful then it seems to me that it's important we demonstrate the very real problems that we users are experiencing with the equipment we've purchased and show that manufacturers' indifference to the problems is a very significant issue. We need to be very clear about this before we destroy anything.
There seems like there is an elephant in the room here in that an electric car takes a significant amount of resources to create and is supposed to be "environmentally friendly" and yet seems to be resistant to repair and longevity.
The whole "disposable" culture of products needs to change, and especially what feels like the enforced disposability of Tesla/Apple/Premium Electronics products needs to change.
I don't quite get your comment in relation to the article.
Lithium recycling has become incredibly efficient in a short amount of time, and the car batteries lasted for 8 years, which is generally considered their average lifetime.
This guy just didn't want to pay for new batteries.
Batteries and EV in general are far more stable and run for longer then ICE engines.
Yes, some failures in an integrated battery module can not easily be fixed, but there are good engineering reason to do it this way. While some problems might of having to recycle a whole pack many will literally run for decades without any service. There is a tradeoff between serviceability and reliability.
Yes, they create resources to build, but any car does. The supply lines for batteries are not yet as well developed and thus not as efficient.
Data actually shows that Li batteries have incredible reuse rates. They often find secondary uses. There are literally 100s of companies who want to recycle batteries, but in reality there are not actually enough batteries coming off-line.
However as scale grows production efficiency will grow to.
Of course doesn't men EV are the solution by itself.
The story doesn't specifically mention that it was used, but definitely makes statements alluding to that.
If this is the norm for old, out-of-warranty Teslas (or any other expensive EV), what are owners supposed to do at the end of their EVs life? Will everyone just end up leasing? Will EV leases be replaced with EV-as-a-service?
Surely the trade-in value will plummet when there is so much risk involved in buying an old EV. Might there enough value in raw materials (batteries, motors, frame, panels) to make it feasible to hold on to an EV this long? Might the vehicle still be valuable enough to sell on a market of repurposed parts (batteries for energy storage, motors as generators for hydro/wind)? Will replacement/refurbished parts eventually become abundant and affordable enough that repairs as feasible as ICE vehicles?
I guess the point is on the exact amount of the "this long".
I may be wrong of course, but 8 years (and unknown KMs, but I don't think people make that many km oer year on EV's) don't seem to me that many, I would say that most modern "traditional" (gasoline or diesel) cars have an expected life of 15 years/300,000 kms or more (of course if cerefully maintained).
bad enough that EV's contain so many hazardous materials, but to blow them all up into tiny bits for the wind to carry into the soil and drinking water? what a jerk.
The guys involved are licensed for pretty much anything.
If you watch the "hydraulic press channel" you'll know these people (Pommijätkät); he's collaborated with them a number of times on their "beyond the press" channel. Pommijätkät also have their own youtube channel.
Ammonium nitrate, commonly used as a fertilizer, is highly explosive. I suppose that Finnish authorities might frown on one showering auto parts everywhere, no matter what explosive is used.
[Edit: I had not read the article when I made this comment, and so did not understand that the owner was actually in Finland.]
A while ago it occurred to me to put my reasonably large collection (already stored in anticipation) in the carpark of a industrial estate I've access to and run over/smash them with the forklift with a camera crew to hand (I've even a favorite cameraman in mind and he's already been worded up).
...And I've special plans for inkjet printers that take forever setting themselves up before deciding to print.
Given the terrible dropoff in after sales service offered by manufacturers, especially so over the last few decades, it seems to me that this form of 'destruction' shaming is a very legitimate way of getting attention to the problem that's otherwise not possible to ordinary consumers. Platforms such as YouTube are ideal for this as the audience is potentially very large and thus manufacturers would have to take note of the bad publicly.
However, I reckon such spectacles shouldn't just become circuses - or means for manufacturers to seek revenge on those who dared post such content. Thus, if such destruction spectacles are to achieve anything meaningful then it seems to me that it's important we demonstrate the very real problems that we users are experiencing with the equipment we've purchased and show that manufacturers' indifference to the problems is a very significant issue. We need to be very clear about this before we destroy anything.