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Originally Posted by FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0
That's an interesting point, and probably the subject of a different thread altogether, but are car manufacturers (and other goods as well) making their product with a shorter lifespan because of cost cutting or because of the turnover rate of their consumers? Conversely, have consumers changed their expectations of product life because of the manufacturing process or do they just prefer to turn things over more frequently. Which is the actual driver (no pun intended)?
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I feel a lot of the cost cutting is to mitigate the amount of money they are spending on battery-electric R&D.