Hello, I would miss this list very much, and I appreciate the email interface.
I have a "modern" EV, a 2012 Mitsubishi i-MiEV. I doubled its range when I replaced its battery pack. The of knowledge and experience of this list was and is appreciated. I have a legacy EV, a 1979 Jet Electravan. I am slowly moving it from lead acid to lithium. There is no specific Electravan list anymore, so I am glad to have this community. Thank you for everything, Michael ------------------------ Original Message ------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:16:50 +0200 From: List Lackey via EV <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: List Lackey <[email protected]> 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 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. -- Wendell Berry = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ OT: If you use an Android device, please read https://keepandroidopen.org/ _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ OT: If you use an Android device, please read https://keepandroidopen.org/
