I was excited for EVs but it looks like I’ll be driving gasoline dinosaurs for the rest of my life.
Yup. Fearing the same as well. All I’m asking for is a car, not a Windows computer.
Sadly it seems our best bet would be to build it ourselves.
I’m imagining cars like Framework laptops and you can install an open source OS of your own choice to operate it.
I literally had this thought the other day. I feel like car guys would love it too. A potential untapped market
beautiful
Aptera supports Right to Repair.,
Edison Motors has preorders for their pickup truck conversion kits as well if you need something bigger.
Aptera supports Right to Repair
I like Aptera and have a couple of them pre-ordered but that’s nothing but a promise. They have plans to IPO. Zero chance their consumer-friendly approach survives that for very long.
Only slightly higher chance that they actually get to market too… Fingers crossed for 2025.
They promised first deliveries before the end of 2022. The only thing they showed up with was a new prototype. There was no explanation given. No acknowledgement. They since pushed the delivery dates back 3 more times, each with no acknowledgement or explanation. Now they say late 2025. I am not hopeful.
I wonder WHEN that “right” has been TAKEN?
Lets wake up for fuck sake and push back!
Right, like if I want a tablet in my car I will just get a dash mount arm and throw whatever current gen tablet on it. I don’t need it as a part of the car.
It will have to be the older gasoline dinosaurs, all the ones today spy
Yes well, older gasoline cars are the only cars. That’s what I meant.
That’s a good thing, you can re-fuel it without having to find a dedicated charging spot and compared to EVs they are far more repairable.
People are aguing about the reparability thing a lot. Current electric cars are less reparable, but that is by design. Car manufacturers are using electric as an excuse to make cars harder to repair. The reality is that electric motors and batteries are dead simple, they just add a bunch of techno bullshit to make them worse. Charging is bad right now, but that will improve with time, just like gas did when gas cars were new. I like cars, and hate seeing them being turned into what they are today, but there is nothing fundamentally different about electric cars to make them the piles of absolute garbage they are, (apart from battery technology not being great right now). 90% of the problems with electric cars are there by design, and I think everyone should buy a car that isn’t designed to suck, whether it’s gas, electric, steam, or fart powered.
No modern car by a major manufacture is easily repairable, ICE or EV.
Exactly right, they are all extremely complex mechanically and electronically. Engine and transmission technology have come a long way, and I guess the absurd complexity is the trade-off we got for the improvements
The complexity does no necessity locking diagnostic code away from consumers or small shops. The complexity does not necessity creating increasingly granular parts that don’t work between close models. The “improvements” are often just marketing hype or incremental nonsense. The infotainment centers on cars are a great example.
Right, those are the bullshit complexities that we don’t need. I’m glad to have the beneficial ones like direct injection, advanced turbos, and variable valve timing (etc)
you can re-fuel it without having to find a dedicated charging spot
Really? Does it rain gas from the sky in your area?
compared to EVs they are far more repairable.
No they’re not.
Ive been fixing and repairing the same 04 Ford Focus for over 6 years. Its been legally totaled over 6 times, if you can find a hybrid that would be as easy to repair I’d love to see it.
We weren’t talking about hybrids. Old Nissan Leaf probably equally easy.
Yes you can re-fuel it, ever heard of a gas can? While you’re waiting for your EV to charge on the side of the road I’m already off driving. I should have specified old dumb cars are more repairable.
Yes you can re-fuel it, ever heard of a gas can?
So people just leave full gas cans all over the place in your area?
While you’re waiting for your EV to charge on the side of the road I’m already off driving.
An EV charges nearly as quickly as you can fill up yours with gas…
As an owner of a plug-in hybrid this is patently incorrect. Most electric car owners have at most of 240 volt outlet (in the US), which while can fill your battery in a few hours from home, still falls short of the half hour round trip to gas station and back. Maybe with time our infrastructure and technology will get to that point though.
It’s not incorrect, you just don’t know what you’re talking about.
Hurr, my 1000 piece gas engine transmission are easier to fix than an electric motor with literally 2 bearings!
This guy has an interesting perspective on that topic. He provides good points on how what you’re saying could be wrong
Interesting video, never knew about custom operating systems/firmware for EVs. Still an old dumb car is what I will use for the time being.
Why exactly does vehicleprivacyreport want my VIN instead of year make and model? That’s me giving an unvetted third party website the unique tracking token for my car….
Lets talk about IMEIs of our phones too… Why is it illegal to change your phone IMEI?
Exactly!
Of course they lied about it. I don’t know how anybody could have believed them in the first place.
Because the general population doesn’t know much about data privacy and they are purposefully mislead and inticed into accepting agreements that share all that information out. The point of NBTV is to raise awareness.
They’re fed propaganda to believe that privacy doesn’t matter….
But just imagine a Google admin had access to all the information about you and wanted to blackmail you into doing something…. The sheer power of that is terrifying.
I’m thanksful that there are more people like us who understand the source of the issues…
Exactly! This person knows what I am saying! ☝️
Bikes are great. Just saying.
Until you have to travel over 40 miles in any direction.
I live car-free, and I travel over 40 miles every now and then.
Well done mate!
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I don’t need that: I live in a city. Suburbs suck.
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What argument? I’m just saying that it works for me and many others.
Most commutes aren’t 40 miles even for suburbanites. Some people get worked up for suggesting that biking is viable for a lot of us for no reason, talking about edge cases, that often could be covered by public transport.
40?
You’re in better shape than I am.
And only some e-bikes have a built-in cell phone.
You don’t have a disability. Just saying.
there are also many disabilities that prevents one from driving. Meanwhile infrastructure that is safe for bikes would also be safe for mobility devices travel
Yes.
I’d be up for a review on new models, e.g https://kilow.com/pages/la-bagnole from France, which claims to be repairable.
That thing looks hilarious!
