@7666 @nprofile1q... @Caleb James DeLisle The leaf has been reversed to hell and back at this point.

The problem is, see the part about compliance cars. Nobody takes it seriously unless they're forced to; and at the same time new ICE cars are also locked down as all hell now as well. Sadly the only way you would have gotten repairable EVs to the same extent is also if GM didn't treat the EV1 as a compliance car they wanted purged. Just look at newer cars with part pairing or "special access keys".

https://eeb.org/en/library/joint-statement-on-repair-in-the-eu-vehicle-law/

Or how about how newer VWs have shit like SFD2, where because of EU "security" regulations you can't work on your own car (but at least you might not end up like the Rolling Stone journalist).
https://www.reddit.com/r/OBDeleven/comments/1r0f22e/new_announcement_regarding_sfd2_you_bought_an/
https://hackaday.io/project/202595-opensource-homelink-ecu-for-vag/log/240838-sfd2-2-steps-forward-1-step-back
https://carista.com/en-us/blogs/news/sfd2-unlock-explained

Oh gee, why does this exist? Well one article has a clue.

https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2023-02/R155e%20%282%29.pdf

By focusing merely on EVs, you're missing the forest for the trees, and it can only be handwaved away because at least in the USA you can still pay a slowly increasing cost for an older car.