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Originally Posted by darcane
While I love old cars and my hobby is tinkering on them... I'm really getting tired of repairing my worn out daily driver. While new cars are more difficult to work on... they normally require far less work. And that appeal may mean my next commuter will be a brand new car.
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My daily driver is still getting more and more fragile and expensive as time goes on. My Plan A is a 3-year warrantied electric tricycle that gets 320MPGe (the Arcimoto SRK). They are still on track to ship product in 2016. Plan B is a fenderless Volksrod with a Lexus electric rear axle.
But even if it's not fun anymore, your right to repair is under attack. Here's a Slashdot story where the potty-mouthed commenters hash out the two sides of the issue:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/16/...to-repair-bill
As cars become more electronic, the problems from patents, DRM and user licensing will only snowball. Jack Rickard, at EVTV, has also raised the issue; not only because Tesla repair documents are only available to people [who claim to be] from Massachusetts, because it's the only state where it is required by law.
EVTV is dedicated to helping convert any old car (68 Camaro, Studebaker pickup) to magnetic drive with reverse-engineered OEM junkyard parts. Their most recent episode revealed v6.2 of their GEVCU controller (now with Bluetooth and GSM) and a new battery made to their exact specifications in China.
JRMichler -- Thanks, I'll tell that family.