No the battery will not outlast the EV unless some breakthrough in reliability.

GM is signing up its customers, who purchased these batteries from GM, to supply the grid.

This is all hype and marketing to inflate the valuation.

Are you saying screenshots in the article were also doctored? That is, your take is that entire story is manufactured?

By your powers combined, I am... the British Colonies!

I know this is not likely, but the following also could be a scenario:

3. Apple doesn't plan to make money off AI, but implementing it to stay feature-competitive with Google.

Exactly. This. I played with various models with "Assume for this session that ice cream is illegal". Within a dozen or so prompts I could always get it to give me an exact recipe. Have not played with âoerealâ stuff, donâ(TM)t want to end up on some list.

I am sure there are some independent garages that would work on EVs, but not many. Garages I've dealt with won't touch EVs, and especially Teslas due to insurance/liability and high "licensing" OEM tool costs. So I think for most EV owners dealer service is the only locally available avenue to repair EVs.

Here, is an article showing the opposite - that you can't get a battery for Leaf because Nissan won't sell you one. I am not certain how reliable after market batteries are, my experiences with aftermarket laptop replacement batteries were negative.

Lets assume that what you found is functional OEM-like quality product with a warranty. I looked up 2021 Nissan Leaf, and private party they sell >$5K. So even on the low end, $4,000 + labor is a write off. As per my point.

As long as I can completely disable it, I have no issues. Currently Siri is completely disabled on my SE. It wasn't difficult to do and it stayed off. Unlike, for example, Microslop that attempts to ram it down your throat.

Ok, so what does it take to replace a battery on a popular non-Tesla EV? Please cite full costs (battery + labor) vs. market value of the vehicle on warranty + 1 day.

Hint: It is probably write-off.

The main aim of Stop Killing Games is to ensure the practice of rug-pulling eventually comes to an end. They are not trying to save MMOs, for example.

Moreover they don't demand that every game currently on the market comply with open-sourcing requirements: at a minimum, companies always have the option of simply providing customers with adequate notice before shutdown. Open-sourcing the server would be nice, but it's hardly the only way to protect consumers' interests. Scott has, for example, suggested game boxes being marked with an estimated expiry date for online service functionality.

But most importantly: because this is about future games, not the present, the market has time to change. If studios and publishers are designing their games with a fair EOL in mind, then they can make decisions from the get-go to avoid licensing dependencies that they won't be able to release in a possible 'afterlife' version of the game. As suggested by your example of GameSpy in C&C: Generals, when a commercial dependency is crucial to a game's success, it tends to be a client-side library, but typically the problematic dependencies aren't crucial; they're e.g. add-ons for Unity or Unreal that the studio bought to save time. In a world with SKG laws, the providers of these dependencies aren't going to be a stagnant target either—demand for compliant libraries will motivate development of open-source versions.

Interestingly, the will for doing this does exist among game developers; they just need the institutional support from legislation to twist the arms of the studios and publishers. Ross Scott has talked to a lot of devs who are burnt out from having their projects cancelled, leaving them with huge gaping holes in their resumes and portfolios where they've spent years on unreleased projects that are stuck under NDA. In general they tend to see SKG as a path to ensuring the games that do see the light of day aren't also scrapped, which would erode their work histories even further. (Apparently it also just plain feels bad to have your work erased from history. Shocking, I know.)

This is not the case. There are case of 1 year old EVs getting written off.