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Toyota Veteran Reveals His Worst Fear: 'Everybody Is Shifting To EVs' - Akio Toyoda says he feels "very alone" in defending combustion engines (www.motor1.com)
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[–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

I agree with that. It’s the imperfection of the engine and transmission - and the proper feedback from mechanical steering and brakes that gives the Ice cars personality and I miss that. EVs are appliances. I think they’ll be like horses. Hobbyist specialties.

I don’t love my EV like some of my previous cars but i haven’t had or made time to properly work on my cars so I do appreciate not needing to do work on the EV - so far.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    There's something to this. EVs might be a little too easy. At least at first.

    I hope once we start wrecking them up and getting access to low cost parts and such, people will start getting inventive.

    Right now, they're too good and too expensive. Suppliers, supply chains, therefore competition is all on the other side of the planet.

    We've already seen some stripped down and supped up Tesla's, and I saw someone who bolted a motor to an old Toyota by just cramming it to the transmission with half a clutch welded on.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    I’m quite hopeful that there’s a resurgence of tinkering in the EV world - primarily because this whole situation wherein the unavailability of a single board for a car made in 1993 simply bricks it, and EVs are just a collection of “modules”. We need people to rebuild batteries and inverters and all that.

    The Fisker bankruptcy is a small scale example where owners have gotten some stuff working again.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Too good? Tesla makes the worst cars you can buy right now.

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