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That would require a secondary market for the batteries. Tesla could fight this by building the battery swap in to the cost of ownership, just like they do with the free supercharger stations. In this scenario, the demand for second-hand Tesla batteries would be very soft, so it wouldn't be worth the criminal effort.



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