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Me neither, I drive electric
I'm pretty sure you need to change the blinker fluid once in a while.
The BMW i series doesn’t ship with blinkers so if you have one don’t worry about it
Yeah it's insane how much easier EV's are to maintain. Almost no wear or consumables.
So much easier UNTIL one of the six million proprietary silicon bullshit breaks (or planned obsolescence) and you're SoL without official manufacturer support.
EVs are a maintainability and reparability nightmare, despite not needing maintenance as often
Anyone crazy enough to design a FOSS EV?
How is this different from any other modern car?
90% of your power train is proprietary electronics that are designed to be opaque and break of you try and "tamper" with them
Most of an ICE car is tangible, rather widely replicable, blocks of metallic alloys
EVs are at their heart really simple machines. You have a battery, a battery controller, some kind of thermal management for the battery (can be passive but active is better), and an electric motor that isn't much more complex than the one in your vacuum cleaner. All these parts are readily available, so you can easily convert an ICE car to an EV with parts you can buy yourself. For some popular cars there are even kits available these days, and conversions of old-timers are really taking off. If there's a kit with clear instructions a conversion can sometimes even be done in a single day.
An ICE car is literally orders of magnitude more complex. There are far more parts, far more computers to control all those parts (in a modern car that is), far more cabling to connect all these computers and far more opportunities for things to go wrong. ICE cars even spontaneously catch fire more often because of all the cabling and complexity.
You're probably thinking of a few specific brands, like Tesla, that are very hostile towards self-servicing, and in those specific cases you are right. But most EVs from established car manufacturers are just as proprietary or non-proprietary as their ICE brethren, just with less complexity and less parts. And of course older cars that don't have any computers in them are immune to this specific kind of complexity as well.
A battery
A highly complex system with support systems to prevent it from literally blowing up (mmmmm tasty lithium)
A battery management system
A seriously complex piece of model specific code that is usually proprietary and has hardware level bricking fuses (so fuck you if it has a fault)
And also, all the other management shit like regen braking and what have you.
You're doing a "reduction". If you reduce literally anything to such high abstraction it seems simple. Yes, quantum physics is also " just " an observation of a continuous system, nothing to it mate
ICE cars can be completely reassembled with a couple of wrenches. The most proprietary thing in the whole system is the ECU, and you can swap that and whatever if you wish to do so.
I do have to oil the chain on my bike every now and then though. (I know about waxing, haven't made the jump yet)
Waxing? I don't. I use a wax based lubricant for sealed chains but am I missing some ancient technique?
It's a trend in road cycling at least. You completely degrease the chain and then dip it in a special hot wax. Apparently it lasts longer than oil and doesn't attract dirt.
Keeps the hair off it too, badumtss
I'm about to. Have the setup, and a spare chain. Just need like 2 rainy days.
Please do not the car (and if you do, please use fresh oil)
sidenote: is there a Lemmy version of r/dragonsfuckingcars?
The lion drives an electric car
Or uses public transport >>>>
...ride lions instead?
owo
Seeing stuff like that makes me feel so thankful to live somewhere with (mostly) functional public transit lol
Yes but lions have other concerns.
On this line of thinking, one benefit that lions and most animals have is being able to react naturally.
The shit that makes us anxious (for example) should be mitigated by acting anxious (taking less risk and avoiding a bad situation). But in modern life, it makes it worse :(
this post was submitted on 29 May 2025
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