Comment by nicoburns

> If 40+ years of mobile phones have not solved such problems through regulations, I am afraid they won't be solved for EVs either.

I don't think that follows. Nobody has even attempted to solve these problems for mobile phones. And the main reason for that is that it's a pretty new problem. Appliances 40 or 50 years ago were much simpler and typically quite repairable. It's only the recently that a focus on manufacturing efficiency and profitability have led to these kind of problems.