Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How clean is your garage? Do you have one? Just curious.

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  • aword@feddit.online ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Currently parked in it!

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nice

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  • blargh513@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I do not understand people who use their garage to store useless crap and leave their car outside. The car is more valuable than the crap.

    Dump all that useless junk into a dumpster. Get a bike shed, put the mower in it too.

    The garage is for cars, not bikes, mowers or trash nobody cares about.

    Looking at you California.

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    • bluGill@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The car is more valuable than the crap.

      Only if you spend way too much money on a depreciating asset that won't be that valuable for long. For that matter storing inside or outside makes zero difference to the value. The stuff in my garage is more valuable than my car (my car is 26 years old so this is a much lower bar than most people), is more sensitive to weather than my cars, and I enjoy it more than cars.

      I don't get this obsession people have with depreciating assets like cars. They brag about how great they are, take good care of it, and then 3 years latter trade in that piece of junk...

      Besides, the worst weather for cars is bright sun, and most cars are parked outside in a parking lot (at work) when it is sunny, and only put in the garage when it is dark.

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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  my ford has no subscriptions that are needed (other than the usual sirius XM and nav subs that all cars have). There is data collection but you are able to opt out.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If the car has an RF transmitter of any kind installed, it is a HARD no.

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      is an RF transmitter in your phone a hard no as well?

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      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I have replaced all that junk on my phone with a clean system I trust. cars not only don’t have alternative software, but using it would be illegal too.

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I reckon it soon shall be, the way such things are trending.

        The point you’re trying to make is, if I willingly carry around a battery powered security hole in my pocket all the time, why should I be concerned about another one installed in my vehicle?

        Well, should I decide I wish to travel without being monitored, I can leave my phone behind and still travel rapidly.

        My phone does not have access to my vehicle’s CAN bus; my phone cannot disable the vehicle from afar should it detect I performed my own repairs or that I am not christian or that my skin is browner than the dictator will tolerate or whatever else the police will decide to murder me for.

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