Its not too bad in the UK at the moment. The electric part is largely ignored as long as the car passes a four hour inspection for a ground up new build or you may just get away with the electric drive being considered as a replacement engine on an existing glider as I did on my Elise and they simply re-registered it.
MOT (yearly government inspection) tests that all cars require are quicker as no emission tests are required. Russ -------------------------------------------- On Sun, 26/4/15, HARSHA GODAVARI via EV <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: [EVDL] Can Automakers Legally Stop You From Working On Your Car? To: "Peter C. Thompson" <[email protected]>, "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, 26 April, 2015, 16:36 Microsoft certified hardware/software only please, to protect us of course :-) regards hg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter C. Thompson via EV" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2015 2:31:53 PM Subject: Re: [EVDL] Can Automakers Legally Stop You From Working On Your Car? This is a serious problem in Europe. I just got back from visiting my work's office in Munich, and they have to jump through some serious hoops to get a car electrified in Germany. Also, it really isn't possible to modify a car in Switzerland (worse case) - they will force you to put on only certified parts or impound the car. O_O Cheers, Peter On 4/25/15 9:26 PM, Doc Kennedy via EV wrote: > I'm not laughing. It's my worst nightmare and I'm just an artist and EV > tinker. > > Doc > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Ben Goren via EV <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Not specific to EVs, except insofar as they're coming of age at the same >> time as the automakers are trying to follow in the computer industry's >> footsteps. >> >> >> http://www.hotrod.com/news/1504-can-automakers-legally-stop-you-from-working-on-your-car/ >> >> Homebrew conversions are going to have a great deal of attraction to them >> for anybody who doesn't want some corporate beancounter somewhere telling >> them what they can and can't do with an hunk of steel they just paid good >> money for. My only fear is that the automakers might try to get legislation >> passed that requires the original manufacturer to "certify" any such >> conversion. Can you imagine having to get permission from GM to drive your >> newly-electrified '57 Caddy? >> >> b& >> -------------- next part -------------- >> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >> Name: signature.asc >> Type: application/pgp-signature >> Size: 801 bytes >> Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail >> URL: < >> http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150425/23425220/attachment.pgp >> _______________________________________________ >> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >> http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >> For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150426/702a116e/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150426/d4b4aa72/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
