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Petrol cars can be easily fixed in a driveway.
by 6f8986c3 5y ago
Petrol cars can be easily fixed in a driveway.
- Causality1 5y agoThis comment does not deserve downvotes. Tesla is every bit as anti-hobbyist as Apple or John Deere.
- nickik 5y agoDid you know that Tesla is not the only EV company?
- Causality1 5y agoTesla is 80% of the US BEV market. Which manufacturers make their electric vehicles easy to work on?
- nickik 5y agoNo current company makes any of their modern cars deliberately easy to work on. No matter the %, the fact is you can get a car from VW, BMW, Daimler, Hyundai, Nissan and so on.
- user-the-name 5y agoNot a modern one. An outdated, inefficient one, sure. But not one that is actually built to be efficient.
- ppf 5y agoThe Fiat 500 from 1957 got 43mpg. Imagine what could be done, if car manufacturers were not focussed on the lease market, meeting the newest emissions regulations (more relevant in Europe), and filling cars with electronic toys.
- user-the-name 5y agoRenault Twingo III gets 66 mpg, while having much more space and being generally more useful.
- ppf 5y agoYep, there are modern engines that will do that. I was using the example of an older engine, because they are generally much more fixable (which was OP's original point).
- user-the-name 5y agoBut my point is, the equivalent today gets a lot better milage, and the reason why has lots to do with why it is not fixable.
- ppf 5y agoYes, modern engines are optimised for fuel and emissions efficiency to within an inch of their lives. This was my entire point - we could move a couple of people in a Fiat 500 and get 43mpg, in 1957. Without the incentives I mentioned in my first post, we could easily make an engine much more efficient than that, and fixable.
- ppf 5y agoAs you ignored my comment on our other discussion, and continue the conversation here - I also assume you have electric heating and hot water at your house. After all, everyone needs to do everything possible to reduce fossil fuel usage, right?
- busterarm 5y agoBut it's so much more complex than the 50+ year old Fiat 500 that the home mechanic can no longer work on it.