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		anon73044 on Oct 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Exce... "tens of millions" and "in perfect operation" doesn't quite jive with me but the numbers are mostly there. For Toyota ~57 million vehicles from '02-'09 https://www.toyota-global.com/company/history_of_toyota/75ye... For Honda ~23 million from '02-09 https://www.statista.com/statistics/267276/worldwide-automob... Volkswagen group looked to be in between the two. Didn't look for Ford or GM.

mywittyname on Oct 15, 2019 [–]

There were 16 million new vehicles are sold last year in the US and there's 260 million registered vehicles on the road with a median age of nearly 12 years old.

To say that there's "tens of millions" of perfectly operational cars on the road in the US is really an understatement.

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