No more individual ownership . . . the corporations will own all:

You can't buy a battery for the new Renault Zoe. Instead, you have to
rent it. And if you stop making payments, the battery's DRM will
prevent you from recharging it. It's part of a larger product strategy
through which the Zoe collects huge amounts of data on your driving
and ships it all back to the manufacturer.

Just what the world needed: a car you're not allowed to own, and which
you can't use anymore if you lose your job and can't pay the monthly
battery rental fee. And if Renault's battery provider goes out of
business, your Renault is bricked.
http://boingboing.net/2013/11/13/ren...kable-car.html

More at
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/1...onsumers-crazy