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Can also be read: "Used Cars to be Sold at Insane Premiums After 2035". I was recently in the market for a mini-camper, DIY or ready-made. What became clear ea

by ghusto 4y ago

Can also be read: "Used Cars to be Sold at Insane Premiums After 2035". I was recently in the market for a mini-camper, DIY or ready-made. What became clear early in my search, was that I would be buying what they call a "classic", or "old-timer" diesel. These things spew more pollution than newer vans, but are the most practical option for people who aren't rich. Their baffling classification entitles them to go to more places (many cities are "green zones" in Europe, where I live) than less polluting newer cars, and they cost less to run. Once you take the reliability and serviceability of these simpler vans into account, it becomes an obvious choice. I'm for clean air, so I hope that along with mandating emission-free cars, they also: 1. Ensure electric charging is as widespread as fuelling up 2. Make EVs as reliable and serviceable as normal cars 3. (This one's just wishful thinking) Pass some kind of law banning all-singing-dancing-touchscreen interfaces Otherwise it's the same as taking away something without providing a proper alternative. People will at best maliciously comply, but more likely just find ways around your laws. Laws don't solve issues by themselves.

kkfx 4y ago
My personal set of issue is (owning now an BEV and a classic EU diesel): - EV batteries, so EVs, are damn expensive and degrade around 3% per year for LiFeP witch are far more robust than ncd, I can't estimate how likely a battery total fault is but it's still a damn big issue. BEVs by themselves nowadays being far more efficient than ICEs are almost on-par in opex terms, at least in EU where the charging infra is not optimal but already spread enough they are just a bit sub-par in CASUAL long-range usage as long as we can charge at home at night or are secondary vehicles and/or we do not live too much at north. So IF they'll reach a price parity with actual ICEs they might be ok for most but still not all private car's usages. - EV charging infra economics, at least the one in EU, must be annihilated. We have tons of different chargers and we do not pay them directly, instead we need some third party service, often just a website who sell rfid cars/badges, with obscure tariffs that vary MUCH for a single unique station from ZERO to $many€. Such kind of "free market" must be erased. - EV AND modern ICE crapware is so DANGEROUS for all that we must banish by laws any black-box. We must mandate open hardware and free software punishing so hard any anti-user feature that no OEM would be so suicidal to try. We must NOT allow connected cars who are de-facto in the hand of their OEM, instead of those of their formal owner. We must forbid tie cars to mobile crap devices through any NON-local network except for single users PERSONAL VPNs/services hosted individually. A day with such modern cars, for instance because of a annoyed lamer or a political move or something else all cars of a certain set of OEMs will go to some important road interception and remain bricked there paralyzing even an entire nation or start to suck power straining the grid etc. Such kind of attacks are already described, far from being theory and so dangerous that the tech allowing them must not be allowed to exists on sale. Beside that. WFH and having a p.v. system in a sunny-enough place, I feel a bit of economy even if not enough to pay back the car price before it will go to the trash. I see NO other real ecological reason behind them. It's just a needed evolution because we can't improve ICEs anymore and so it's time to change the tech. In pollution terms shifting it to exotic places is not being eco-friendly.

by ghusto 4y ago

kkfx 4y ago

My personal set of issue is (owning now an BEV and a classic EU diesel): - EV batteries, so EVs, are damn expensive and degrade around 3% per year for LiFeP witch are far more robust than ncd, I can't estimate how likely a battery total fault is but it's still a damn big issue. BEVs by themselves nowadays being far more efficient than ICEs are almost on-par in opex terms, at least in EU where the charging infra is not optimal but already spread enough they are just a bit sub-par in CASUAL long-range usage as long as we can charge at home at night or are secondary vehicles and/or we do not live too much at north. So IF they'll reach a price parity with actual ICEs they might be ok for most but still not all private car's usages. - EV charging infra economics, at least the one in EU, must be annihilated. We have tons of different chargers and we do not pay them directly, instead we need some third party service, often just a website who sell rfid cars/badges, with obscure tariffs that vary MUCH for a single unique station from ZERO to $many€. Such kind of "free market" must be erased. - EV AND modern ICE crapware is so DANGEROUS for all that we must banish by laws any black-box. We must mandate open hardware and free software punishing so hard any anti-user feature that no OEM would be so suicidal to try. We must NOT allow connected cars who are de-facto in the hand of their OEM, instead of those of their formal owner. We must forbid tie cars to mobile crap devices through any NON-local network except for single users PERSONAL VPNs/services hosted individually. A day with such modern cars, for instance because of a annoyed lamer or a political move or something else all cars of a certain set of OEMs will go to some important road interception and remain bricked there paralyzing even an entire nation or start to suck power straining the grid etc. Such kind of attacks are already described, far from being theory and so dangerous that the tech allowing them must not be allowed to exists on sale. Beside that. WFH and having a p.v. system in a sunny-enough place, I feel a bit of economy even if not enough to pay back the car price before it will go to the trash. I see NO other real ecological reason behind them. It's just a needed evolution because we can't improve ICEs anymore and so it's time to change the tech. In pollution terms shifting it to exotic places is not being eco-friendly.