You should also mention that these electric cars are essentially disposable. Once the battery fails, you are looking at a $15-30k repair bill on a car with a value of $10-30k. We refer to that as being 'economically totalled ". Also, given that these manufacturers are locking down private repairs through software exacerbates that issue. A repair that could cost you $1-5k in your driveway or at a 3rd-party repair facility will cost $5-30k at a Tesla dealer.,(reply>), @Liam Miller No, you failed English class. If you passed, you'd know the discussion is obviously about batteries. Bringing up anything else is you trying to move the goalposts. Even then, the RC company is probably not going to like you meddling with the battery anyways. You've rebutted nothing.<br><br>You also have no idea why I brought up bike batteries then if you're just going to claim yours doesn't. For starters, I pointed out warranty policies doing exactly what DRM does, and you have conveniently dodged that the issue is the ease with which companies can close off repairs. You're running scared, the fact you aren't addressing the elephant in the room proves it.<br><br>I also know that at this point you're lying. No way you have mechanic friends or know a lick of spit about cars if you're trying to assert that an ECU in an engine is the same as a Tesla's whole method of moving. The sheer magnitude of difference in what those things do differentiates them. This would be obvious to anyone with actual mechanical knowledge of how a car works. You made a stupid comparison and are now trying to bluff your way out of it. You then try talking computers as if that proves anything other than your desperation for me to move off of actual mechanics. I've actually interacted with an ECU on a car. Calling that a computer is technically true, but the fact it's just one part in an engine assembly creates far less of a problem than a car whose entire construction is more or less computer. Still a problem, but not as much of a problem.<br><br>This is just laughable. I don't fear change. I do however fear well-educated idiots will pull a Marie Antoinette, ram EVs down people's throats despite the fact they are still not ready for wider application and don't have anywhere near the infrastructure required to mainstream them, accomplish something akin to what Europe's going through now with a heating crisis, and then tell the peasants they didn't even consider that they can just eat cake. EVs are indeed the future. But a future in which I'm dead of old age, nuclear power reigns supreme, and people like you have little if any say in how the mainstreaming process was accomplished.<br><br>Now are you going to do anything novel, or just keep being a 'tard who doesn't understand what the point is?,(reply>), @Harley Mitchelly  wow you are clueless. Nothing to repair on an rc car? Motors, gears, electronics, servos, frame, body, ... Even for the battery you can replace individual cells and re balance. My ebike has no DRM. Because some might just proves my point. It's a business choice not a technical one. I know plenty about cars. I have several mechanic friends and work on mine as well, including things like timing belt changes, brakes jobs, suspension work. I also do all kinds of computer repair, tinkering, 3d printing. DRM in car space was going to happen regardless of EVs. Is has nothing to do with batteries. You just fear change. I support right to repair and am not a fan of Musk. But EVs are clearly the future.,(reply>), @Liam Miller You unironically made my point. You don't repair an RC car battery. There's nothing mechanical to repair. I'm also very familiar with electric bicycles and know full well they're well on the way to nixing repair and modification by way of onerous warranty voiding policies, so yeah, your electric bike battery does carry something akin to DRM on it. I can change a piston on my car's ICE without some car company waving the warranty void flag. Assuming I was so inclined, I could completely overhaul my ICE with parts from 10 different vehicles and none of the manufacturers will complain about it. This cannot be said of the battery engine market at all, you mess around with anything and they will start flipping out at you. That's the point, that's something you're never going to get around arguing without exposing that you know nothing about cars, right-to-repair, or anything relevant to this discussion. You sound dangerously uninformed about your own point sir, we wouldn't want to validate your critic by showing that you kind of are the last horse crossing the finish line.<br><br>To put it bluntly, I'd rather be a Luddite and right than a tech simp and abundantly wrong. All you're doing is just reinforcing a budding stereotype that electric defenders are know-nothing know-it-alls.,(reply>), @Harley Mitchelly be a Luddite if you want, but boycotting EVs will change nothing about right to repair, only legislation and activism will.,(reply>), @Harley Mitchelly There is nothing more inherently DRM about batteries than engines. My rc car I had as a kid had no DRM. My power tools have no DRM. My electric bicycle is totally diy. It is purely a business and political decision. Ever heard of OnStar?  Don't confuse correlation with causation.