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Another look at the future: The market for older vehicle restorations will explode as more and more people choose vehicles with internal-combustion engines, mechanical components driven by other mechanical components, buttons on the dashboard, skinny owner's manuals, overall ease of use and repair, and no ability to be controlled remotely, in a broad rejection of lame designs, kill switches, and planned obsolescence. This market will not just include the "classics" either. Imagine a 1986 Honda Accord or a 1993 Dodge Intrepid restored to near-new condition, inside, outside, and under the hood. The first step is protecting consumers by enacting "right to repair" laws.
Another look at the future: The market for older vehicle restorations will explode as more and more people choose vehicles with internal-combustion engines, mechanical components driven by other mechanical components, buttons on the dashboard, skinny owner's manuals, overall ease of use and repair, and no ability to be controlled remotely, in a broad rejection of lame designs, kill switches, and planned obsolescence. This market will not just include the "classics" either. Imagine a 1986 Honda Accord or a 1993 Dodge Intrepid restored to near-new condition, inside, outside, and under the hood. The first step is protecting consumers by enacting "right to repair" laws.
It's going to be easier and cheaper to convert them into battery electric vehicles given how modular those parts can be and where you can fit them, and meanwhile it's going to be a lot more annoying to keep going with internal combustion engine vehicles as gas stations become less common. Having right to repair laws in place would certainly make that transition and the modding of vehicles with different kinds of motors and battery packs a lot smoother though, and I'm all in favor of that.
One thing I'm particularly curious about is hub motors and how frequently that's going to be fitted into existing vehicles as the power density on these get higher and higher so issues with unsprung weight become negligible. This means that *any* vehicle can easily become AWD and AWD in a very full sense of the acronym in that each one of them can independently move and therefore allow for some really impressive torque vectoring.
Another aspect of this is that old pony cars with their massive hoods, but limited to no trunk space will suddenly have massive amounts of storage space or perhaps a camping compartment.
Another look at the future: The market for older vehicle restorations will explode as more and more people choose vehicles with internal-combustion engines, mechanical components driven by other mechanical components, buttons on the dashboard, skinny owner's manuals, overall ease of use and repair, and no ability to be controlled remotely, in a broad rejection of lame designs, kill switches, and planned obsolescence. This market will not just include the "classics" either. Imagine a 1986 Honda Accord or a 1993 Dodge Intrepid restored to near-new condition, inside, outside, and under the hood. The first step is protecting consumers by enacting "right to repair" laws.
And states like California with its CARB will just outlaw the use on all California roads, only zero emissions allowed. Boom, solved that work around. That will be the future.
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