I haven't looked, but maybe it's better to migrate to some other forum
that supports similar interests. I'll guess that would be (1) hobby EV
conversions, (2) general battery and charging theory, (3) general EV
technology. Does such a forum exist ?
While it sounds simple enough to continue supporting this list, and I
would fully support the continuation, joining another list exists with
similar interests might enrich our and their experiences.
Kudos to David for financing the existence of this list !
Peri
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From: "List Lackey via EV" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: "List Lackey" <[email protected]>
Sent: 10-Jul-26 22:16:50
Subject: [EVDL] EV List future?
Find a couple of questions for you to please answer / discuss below.
About a week ago I got an unwelcome surprise - notice that the EV list's
hosting service will shut down discussion lists on the 22nd of this month.
Good news: I've found a new host that seems committed to discussion lists for
the longer term.
More good news: It would add an integrated archive and an interactive web-
forum (BBS) to the list. That would make it more like Google Groups or the
old Yahoo Groups, but without all the advertising and the privacy concerns.
To be clear, the BBS would be optional. You could still interact with the
discussion list entirely via email, the way you always have.
As a bonus, the new host would cost me about half of what I've been paying
for the last few years.
But ...
List traffic has been steadily declining since 2012 and the introduction of
practical production EVs. In the last 6 months we've had about 260 posts.
In 2010, we got almost that many messages per *week*.
That's probably because the EV list has always been mainly a place for EV
hobbyists.
Not many folks build their own EVs now.
Also, most of the production EVs have their own dedicated or semi-dedicated
(usually commercial / ad-supported) online resources.
I suppose that there's EV discussion on social media, too.
So, finally, my questions to you:
Is the EV discussion list still useful to you?
Should I keep it going?
David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey
To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my
offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt
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