On Apr 27, 2015, at 8:52 PM, Michael Ross via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
> being the devil's advocate... > > This is clearly not great for the poor or the DIY'r, but the new car buyer > may have much better cars to choose from, I expect instead of 200K miles > being common, 100K was a great thing when I was young, I am sure with EVs > there will be an expectation of 300K and 400K life. That's got basically nothing to do with locking people out of their own vehicles, and everything to do with basic engineering -- materials science especially, as well as new manufacturing techniques to permit the use of stronger, lighter, and more efficient materials and designs. My 1964 1/2 Mustang that's going to become a plugin hybrid? It's going to make more power, get better mileage, and have a better chance of lasting longer than basically anything you could buy from the dealer in the '60s. The block itself may well wind up having been manufactured in the '60s...but the rotating assembly is going to be either forged or nodular iron, it's going to have fuel injection, and so on, giving the drivetrain basically all the advantages of both '60s and modern technology and none of the disadvantages of either. The auto manufacturers are just following in the footsteps of the inkjet printer manufacturers: sell the printers for the price of a full set of ink cartridges...and sell the cartridges at some sort of insane thousand-to-one-or-so markup. And put a $0.0001 chip in the cartridges that ensures that you can't refill them and can only use the manufacturer's cartridges in the printer. My advice to car buyers? Don't buy anything model year 1966 or newer. If you have a newer car that left the factory withOUT computer controls, don't sell it. Either that, or just get it out of your head right now any notion that you actually own the car.... b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150427/7386fdf3/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
