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A new incentive to steal cars then. Steal car, harvest battery cells worth $20k+, ditch the rest of the car. No silly VIN numbers, etc. Just anonymous 18650 cells (or whatever they use now).

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I was under the impression most car thefts were already to chop them up for parts anyway so this doesn't seem like a new incentive.

Wait till the stories come out about criminals discovery what an extremely low impedance source of 700V does to your body.

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