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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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[-] MaxxisP@lemmings.world 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly, it isn’t unusual

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