Luckily, you can make more plants from a single plant. Which makes me wonder about the commercial viability here, as plant people tend to be quite promiscuous when it comes to sharing cuttings...
That seems pretty reasonable for debugging no? And you can just replace them by hand, on your prototype board, in case you have been debugging so hard you managed to break one of them.
Does it? A cursory search seems to put an (used) EV at around 10k$ at best. Poor people definitely do not drive 10k$ cars here. Hell, even my tech-adjacent friends in their twenties rarely own anything more expensive than 3k$-ish.
They may not drive a $10k used ICE, but if you add up the cost in fuel & oil changes, it's likely equivalent.
The real problem is that right now a $10k used EV is almost certainly an old Leaf or Kia Soul EV etc with extremely low range and degraded battery (because they lacked proper thermal mgmt, mainly). So they're not really directly usable by most people. This will eventually change though; in 10 years there'll be boatloads of Model 3s or Ioniqs or Bolts etc on the used market. And yes, they'll be more expensive than a used ICE but they'll also be cheaper to maintain.
The lack of birds in the small town where my parents live, and dozens of semi-feral cats roam, is always rather unsettling. Meanwhile the parks in a city two orders of magnitude larger are bustling with activity, since the life expectancy of an outdoor cat here is close to zero.
