Battery based vehicles of today and tomorrow pt 2

[Gale Hawkins]

1943 EV battery swap

Jeff Craigie on Reels | Jeff Craigie · Original audio

Jeff Craigie · Original audio

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1943 EV battery swap

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Turning back to the topic at hand...

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Turning back to the topic at hand...

Like today I guess the war impacted fuel price and availability.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

This article indicates the still hot pandemic and a spreading world wide recession/depression has forever changed the love affair with the automobile. The car buying babyboomers needs are dropping like a rock as we are. Maybe the robo taxi era will arrive and the 18-25 age group that are being priced out vehicle ownership.

Car buying is never going back to normal

Even though dealerships are getting more cars on their lots, automakers still plan to capitalize on having less inventory sitting around.

www.businessinsider.com

 

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This article indicates the still hot pandemic and a spreading world wide recession/depression has forever changed the love affair with the automobile. The car buying babyboomers needs are dropping like a rock as we are. Maybe the robo taxi era will arrive and the 18-25 age group that are being priced out vehicle ownership.

Car buying is never going back to normal

Even though dealerships are getting more cars on their lots, automakers still plan to capitalize on having less inventory sitting around.

www.businessinsider.com

Not really sure the current 18-25 year olds have the same issues we had at that age, like how to you socialize with your peers etc. We would all pile into a vehicle and go to a kegger, get drunk and drive home. Now they all pile onto a group chat/video call and do whatever they're doing now.

 

[ovrszd]

I've had the local quickie lube place replace my wipers while they were doing the service. I can do them, but much easier to let someone else do.it

Oh I'm all about that. Maybe I misread the statement. My interpretation was the Inspection Station told the owner the wiper blades needed replaced to pass.

Our O'Reilly's installs them free.

 

[ovrszd]

You miss the point. No need to be flippant. If we had one car, a small house and garage on a lot, I could check on that car since that's all I have to do.
When you have a farm, car collection, horses, tractors, motorcycles, mowers, trees to cut, and 10 projects and chores every day and the one car has working but wiper blades needing replacement and $22 for 3 blades are meaningless to me...I REST MY CASE!

Not being flippant. I made my case that I don't need the inspection station to tell me to replace my blades. You made your case that you do. It's all good.

 

[Dftodd]

Oh I'm all about that. Maybe I misread the statement. My interpretation was the Inspection Station told the owner the wiper blades needed replaced to pass.

Our O'Reilly's installs them free.

Battery replacement on my Sierra is a mother. Auto zone replaced that one

 

[ovrszd]

Battery replacement on my Sierra is a mother. Auto zone replaced that one

The battery on Terry's Grand Cherokee is under the passenger front seat.....

 

[Oaktree]

This article indicates the still hot pandemic and a spreading world wide recession/depression has forever changed the love affair with the automobile. The car buying babyboomers needs are dropping like a rock as we are. Maybe the robo taxi era will arrive and the 18-25 age group that are being priced out vehicle ownership.

A lot of us are being priced out of affordable vehicle ownership, but I'm not sure robotaxis (or ubers or any other sort of taxi) are a practical solution either should vehicle non-ownership become widespread, especially during busy periods.

The old ways of dealerships having 100+ vehicles on the lot days were numbered anyway, cost of keeping that kind of inventory must have been massive. Personally, I'm not thrilled with a strictly build-to-order system either unless you can truly customize it...not just choose from one of a handful of packages. You know, be able to get the larger engine, "good" stereo, etc. without having to get a bunch of other crap you don't want. I, for one also like to be able to test-drive something before I commit to it...I have long legs and relatively few sedans are comfortable for me. Also nice to know ahead of time on ergonomics...ie-control placement, how intuitive things are (a big deal these days given how tech-y everything is), etc.
Hopefully things settle out somewhere in the middle.

Battery replacement on my Sierra is a mother. Auto zone replaced that one

Battery replacement is a PITA on most modern vehicles. Long gone are the days when it was right out in the open with a + cable, a - cable and some sort of hold-down.