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[Dormant] Electric Vehicles
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I wouldn't call it new technology. Manufacturers just keep overcomplicating things and introducing additional points of failure and the advancements are mainly in built in spying tech.
The diy conversions are still my preference having to date tested 8 different manufactured EVs and 4 diy builds.
Manufacturers are all deluded though. If they just made a basic everyman's ev with no bells and whistles, standard basic replaceable 2din head unit, 2 front speakers but mount points and prewired for rear speakers like the base level Honda configurations of days gone by, then they would guaranteed sell a whole fuckload of those and more than enough people would easily get roped into paying extra for the optionals and the people that don't are the ones who otherwise wouldn't have bought a new car at all. Instead they deck everything out in dumb shit that nobody wants and jack up the prices like ram and hard drive prices for apple computers.