People just don’t get it. The electricity needed does have to come fro somewhere. The car still needs to be built. The batteries still have to come from somewhere. It ain’t magic.
to replace an already existing rig to a new electric one is imo not helping. To have a set date on when gas won’t be allowed really puts a hurt on a lot of people. Gas will go up and it’ll be done to force bs agenda. Anyone that has a gas powered car now has 0 equity and is forced to basically buy new, it takes under 1/2 the manual labor to build electric so those are out of work, any mom/pop repair place is out of business, most other repair shops as well. Be a lot of people out if business. Lotta cars to throw away as well.
Electric cars don’t require as much maintenance but it’ll become much more specialized so the consumer will wind up having to pay more strictly dealer. Things will be much more replace then repair, and if I’ve learned ANYTHING in the business it’s that not only is technology it’s far more expensive down the road and effects resale huge. Diesel trucks are one example, high end European cars another, a f***ing 1500$ taillight when an led goes out is another so people are very wary of used technology and the price suffers. Batteries when the car has many miles on it will prove to be scary and only the well off will be ok with something new. A backyard hardworking guy is done.
Lube shops are done as well. And same with performance or custom installed items, now you just call up manufacture with credit card and crap that was there you just pay extra for, but at a massive premium. It’ll become impossible and illegal to mess with anything not to mention so integrated that you can’t. But that integration will cost you up front, during the life of the rig and resale value.
Some things won’t be able to be reproduced on electricity but that’s stuff the left doesn’t do so it’s no matter.
Then you simply talk about control, it’ll be real hard to be in situation where you need to push people out of your way or the likes of if it came down to it. All you need to do soon is stand in front of the car and person is locked so it would be easy to do whatever to that driver. The car could be shut down if you’re “out of bounds” or you could be required to stay in certain area. Electricity goes out or grid problems you’re done. There will be more car hacks. Problems associated with self driving. If you’re car throws a code it’ll be shut down till it’s serviced by the “correct” facility.
Just so much stupid s*** involved. I don’t mind driving my recycled s***, I think it’s more green to do that and keep rigs for years then replace every year because the new one has a bigger lcd screen. Lotta people don’t even test drive s*** anymore they simply call and order their new cars. I’m not going to be one of those clowns all excited about my car driving itself, I like driving and I like working in things, that’ll be the past to tell our grandchildren about, the good ol days.
Just the opinion from a good ol hard working backwoods American hick.
