speculate7383

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My 11-year old Nissan Leaf, with the oldest and worst battery technology in modern EVs, is now at 80% battery capacity.

Replacement battery is $6k, installed.

But 80% is enough for me so I won't need to replace it for a long time. This car will easily last 20 or 30 years.

"But I can't afford to spend even $5k to replace the battery when it happens!!!!!". Baloney. What I can't afford is paying 4 times the cost per mile for gasoline, FOREVER.

Set up an monthly automatic transfer in your checking account to a savings account, for the amount you would have spent on gasoline. Call it your battery replacement fund. It will be plenty in no time.

Dude I was putting industrial control systems behind firewalls 25 years ago, for exactly this very scenario. Which had not happened yet, but even then it was completely obvious to every network engineer that this would happen eventually.

Remotely accessible? Of course. Directly on the public internet with default credentials? Idiots.

I would expect the job wasn't just "we'll pay you drive around non-stop for 9 hours/day". I bet it was probably more like "use this car for your commute and stuff, but be sure to have it up to 6km in X weeks" or something like that.

It would probably take a long time to run up 6k on a dyno, completely occupying that dyno for just one car. Doubt that would have been worth the cost of one (or multiple) dynos.