My rules: - don’t fix what isn’t broken
- adjust when necessary - don’t ever tell volunteers to change what they are doing just because you would do it differently unless they are creating a problem for you. Thanks, Mike for what you are doing. - Mark Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone > On Sep 29, 2019, at 4:35 PM, Mark Laity-Snyder via EV <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I totally agree with Bruce. It makes sense for the EVAlbum to be unique > conversion BEVs. All other EVs are not needed on the list or can be put in > other forums. > > Thanks Bruce and Mike for all you do. > > Bruce said "To keep Mike from being inundated with the avalanche of new > production > EV drivers everyone can see IS coming, changes should be made to let Mike > handle the work load, and make passing evalbum.com on to the next/younger > caretaker, not an albatross/cross to bear that it currently is. > IMO, evalbum.com should be for EVs-only (ones that plug into a grid for > electric > power). Not hevs, pih, fcvs, etc. An EV-conversion is essentially a modified > vehicle. > Most production EVs aren't allowed to be modified, else they lose warranty or > support from the manufacturer. However, aging production EVs, that have lost > their support or their part sourcing has died up, can become modified > production EVs. Thus, a listing of how the owner is diy supporting their > 'classic' EV > would be valuable for others to know. > > *Certain vehicles should be moved/off-loaded evalbum.com to other ownership, > and let evalbum.com focus on just EVs, specifically, converted/modified EVs. > Then evalbum.com site maintenance would be much more manageable. > > *1st move all hybrids (plugin or not) to a popular forum of that model to > manage. > There is currently a boat-load/a-lot of non-EV prius listings > that could easily be handled by a prius forum. The same with other hybrids. > Since fcvs are essentially also a hybrid that consumes fossil fuel, they > should be blocked from listing on evalbum.com and referred to list on their > favorite fcv forum. > > At some point, Tesla roadster gen1 EVs are going to lose manufacturer > support, That is when the old classic EV would become owner diy supported, > and thus > a modified production EV, whose listing of what changes the owner has made to > continue supporting it, would be good to know.+ > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20190929/92535cbb/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
