I wonder if in another ~30 years we'll get another wave of nostalgia and make the Delorean v3?
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I wonder if it will be possible to have antique cars from this period on. With all of the software in them they'd have to release the source code or decompile it to keep them on the road.
I have an "old" electric car. (2018 Leaf) I've noticed some of the issues you allude to.
There is a Nissan app that doesn't work for the car anymore, because the car has a 3G cellular radio in it, and there just aren't many, if any, remaining 2g/3g towers. It does have android auto, which so far I don't care for, but that's probably a skill issue. The car has navigation, but the maps are out of date and Nissan isn't offering updates anymore. It has Sirius XM, and I think I could just turn on the subscription and it would work. Lastly, the "rapid charge" port on the car is a CHAdeMo port, and there are fewer of those than NACS or CCS.
Outside of those things, the car works like any other EV. All menus and screens operate and all the accessories work.
Whether or not something will last as a "classic car" depends on the same thing as it always has: the number of weirdos interested in that car. There aren't huge groups of people trying to keep Chevy Chevettes or AMC Concords alive, but there are huge online communities and even some cottage industries that have risen up around things like Jeeps, Suzuki Samurais, air-cooled Volkswagens, old BMW's, and yes, Nissan Leafs.
Sure. The shell and possibly drivetrain will be original, and the electronics will be replaced. Just like all those kits to make electric vw buses (though they will still run just gine on gasoline. l
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One of these drove by me the other day in a parking lot and it was just squeaking and creaking in a way you'd expect a 30 year old vehicle to sound, the thing is basically a half-finished prototype that I guess Musk just got sick of trying to make actually good because he knows that his cult chuds buying these things couldn't give a fuck if they are built properly or not.
It was ill-conceived, over-promised, and under-delivered.
They're huge. They're 'stainless'. They're unibody. The drivetrain is expensive as shit. The tech innovations (digital door handles, controlless dash, bed cover are just wastes of money.
He wanted to make an impregnable, floatable tank. They ended up cutting every corner on structure and putting that into form, but when they finished, the design and QC was so bad that it just failed all over.
To fix everything that would be needed to cover the non-artistic issues, it would be the price of a large house instead of a small one.
Ok I was wondering if the one I heard creaking by me the other day was an anomaly. There are two locally and they both have squeaky suspension.
Yeah, I hadn't seen one drive by slowly in a quiet area before, so this is the first time I noticed it, but it sure sounded like the boots and/or joints were already toast on a 2-to-4 year-old truck, which is insane.
But it looks so good!!!
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Imagine being so dumb you manage to turn that kind of momentum into the electric Edsel
The androids butt plug.
It truly does look like an "apocalypse-proof tank" in the sense that it resembles a cheesy "car of the future" slapped together with sheet metal for a low-budget sci-fi flick. I think they were channeling Damnation Alley.
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