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That's interesting, thanks for sharing! Are you aware of how many controllers an e-Up has? How easy/expensive is it to find replacement parts? Also how many are actually in the critical path to keep the car running?

The presenter in the video says only 3 micro-controllers should be required to operate an electric car in a road-safe manner. However every car model now has hundreds of these and a failure in a single part can take the whole car to refuse to start. So if you find an electric car with few and standard off-the-shelf components, you struck a gold mine and should let us all know about it :)



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