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The used car market today
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I’m starting to look at those old cars just to not have built-in trackers on my vehicle.
The engine in my 1994 K1500 is fucked but I'll engine swap before I buy a spyware truck.
I figure the engine swap business has got to be booming right now.
Chevy v8's can be rebuilt and engine swapped to the end of time... They only built ten million of them a year.
Hell, you could rent a Uhaul and use its engine, then claim in broke down on you.
Doesn't engines have serial numbers? I have a feeling this is going to backfire
Lol, I like that
I won't drive anything I can't fix. That seems to be old vehicles only.
On one hand, I wanna do right by the environment, own an EV, do my part.
On the other hand, corporations are never going to do their part, the Earth is probably doomed and I have to get by to get by.
So... yeah, I'm probably buying another 6-9th gen Civic or Accord and sending it until it dissolves into the pavement.
Own an EV to save money. People buying vehicles seem to assume gas is free.
I'm optimistic about Slate. Perhaps naively so.
Buying old means not purchasing net new products. It's not fully sustainable, but it maintains the status quo and doesn't contribute to more waste. Keeping something old alive and in good working condition is a lower carbon footprint than buying a new EV or Hybrid.
Depends on the miles. An EV undertakes a new gas car after 20k miles.
There is a point where a new EV, with mined lithium and all, will be more environmentally friendly than a used car that didn't need to be built but burns gas for every mile.
If you live in a sunny area (pv) or a dense hydro area, that point is quite quickly reached.
Whether there's a net lower carbon footprint depends heavily on how much gasoline you burn
However the used EV market is only growing
I'm hoping that someone does some reverse engineering on the engine management computers of EVs. EVs internals are a lot simpler. An open source, drop in brain is definitely not unachievable.
All the advantages of an EV with none of the corporate tracking.
Simple to do badly, but still challenging to do elegantly. Managing power/throttle response in every situation is quite complex if you want it to feel good. Kinda like how everyone makes a trackpad, but only Apple makes Apple trackpads.
And thats before we get into the complications of thermal management with the batteries and heat pumps and stuff.
Do you mean for an ICE to EV conversion? You can already buy such kits.
More a replacement brain for an EV. Compared to an ICE there is far less to manage in a hyper time critical manner. It's a lot more viable to design a drop in replacement. Particularly if the battery bank already has its own monitoring, that just reports upwards.
You would end up with a modern EV, with many of the desired features. However, the manufacturer would no longer be able to reach in and extract data, either remotely, at a mechanic, or after an accident.
Just unplug the sharkfin, or cover it with foil tape.
You can also have that. The ice replacement kits bring everything, and very often use tesla or leaf batteries. If you already have a Tesla battery in your tesla, that much you can save. You lose all the fancy features, remote app management, sentry, etc, but that might be a pro for you...
Whoop whoop carburetor gang rise UP!
Yes, carbs are great if you love working on cars. A factory fuel injection system these days (anything newer than the old Jetronic pieces of shit) is pretty much set it and forget it, plus if you do have a bad sensor or something, it'll usually tell you (by live data reading if not DTC). Way easier to maintain than carburetors.
Carburetors waste a lot of fuel.
Ha. Just switch to an electronic ignition, improved coil, and spark and it's as peppy and efficient as fuel injection.
That's quite wrong.
same, that's why I drive a kid tricycle.
I the sort of person who would go to the dealership and start looking underneath the showroom cars. If I can't see the oil filter, I don't want it.
Both of my cars are from the 80's lol. I will never buy a new vehicle again, made that mistake with a 2019 Tacoma.
I have 1974 car, a 1994 4x4 van for snow, and a 1975 motorcycle for summer. All things I do my own work on.