I spent 7 years designing sensors and actuators for the aftermarket business of Standard Motor Products. A successful manufacturing and reselling auto part supplier since the 1920's. Still going strong, aggregating the demand for lower volume parts to supply your local auto parts store. There is still a need for "Right to Repair." As long as stuff wears out there will be spares. What they cost will be all about the market. What is the demand? And what price will it bear? If there are millions of cars there will be hundreds of thousands of spare parts.
On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 4:23 PM EV List Lackey via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > On 29 May 2022 at 11:54, Michael A. Radtke via EV wrote: > > > I use the [Imiev] nearly every day and depend on it. I also realize that > > it is approaching end of life and there is nothing on the market that, > > in my opinion, does the job that I need it to do. > > Not to break in on a semi-private conversation here, but I wonder what end- > of-life looks like for an EV. > > For as long as I've been following EVs (about 55 years), lower mechanical > complexity => longer potential mechanical life has always been a big check > in the plus column. > > Stuff wears out, yea verily even electronics. "Longer life" thus assumes > that spare parts remain available and affordable, and that the battery is > rebuildable or replaceable. Spares are always a fight as a car ages. > Fortunately consumer law is more or less on our side on that scrap. > > But at least in the US it's become tougher to improve consumer law. If > we're stuck with the ICEV-oriented laws on EV spare parts availablity, > then > EV end of life might look pretty much like ICEV end of life. > > And then there's the body, again from the perspective of the snowy, salty > northern US. The (galvanized?) steel now used in cars lasts longer than > the > old dip-primed (or not) stuff of 50-60 years ago. But steel never really > stops longing to return to its lower energy steady state of iron oxide. > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > We can't solve problems by using the same kind > of thinking we used when we created them. > > -- Alan Kay > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > -- Michael E. Ross (919) 585-6737 Land (919) 901-2805 Cell and Text (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Tablet, Google Phone and Text -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20220529/ee134f62/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
