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Toyota Will Adopt Tesla-Style Cast Bodies That Might Be Impossible to Fix (www.thedrive.com)
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Toyota Will Adopt Tesla-Style Cast Bodies That Might Be Impossible to Fix::Toyota plans to make electric car bodies in the same style as Tesla's "gigacasting." But the resulting EVs might be too hard to repair.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These days repairs on regular cars are so cost prohibitive, that if the accident is severe enough to deploy airbags it's a write off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly, it isn’t unusual