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When it comes to economics there are also downsides for many people. For example, there are many people who work on car parts today that don't have a corollary
by mfer 6y ago
When it comes to economics there are also downsides for many people. For example, there are many people who work on car parts today that don't have a corollary in electric cars. Electric cars have fewer parts. This is going to negatively hit the economics of people who design, build, and service car parts.
Some things are a trade-off.
I wonder how society will help them transition to other things well
- ipnon 6y agoJust like the automobile displaced all those employed in the horse and buggy businesses, which was apparently massive given pictures of 19th century cities.
- Tade0 6y agoThey'll be fine - EVs still have suspensions, brakes, and other serviceable parts. The other day a friend of mine bought his first car - a 2008 Honda Jazz. Stuff that needed to be replaced from the get go: -front stabilizer link rods. -front discs -brake pads -AC pump -12V battery -front lights Regarding combustion-related parts there's the muffler and oxygen sensor, but that's it. His case is fairly typical. Also there's a more immediate danger looming - newer diesels are so sophisticated that quite often repairing them is uneconomical. The same will happen sooner or later to gasoline, because usually it's the costly stuff like injectors and the flywheel that fails.
- megablast 6y agoThose poor buggy whip makers.