Electric scooter/bike/car/bus/etc. By detaching yourself from the dependency of fossil fuels you empower yourself. You can charge a battery using solar power. Combustion engines will always require a complex oil refinement process.
Electric scooter/bike/car/bus/etc. By detaching yourself from the dependency of fossil fuels you empower yourself. You can charge a battery using solar power. Combustion engines will always require a complex oil refinement process.
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Turret3857@infosec.pub · 11 pts · 18d
Most EVs are data collection on wheels. If there was a full EV made in 2000, I'd go for that.
speculate7383@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 18d
It took me about 15 minutes or so to remove the SIM chip from the telematics unit in my 2015 Nissan Leaf. Just followed a youtube video that showed everything step-by-step.
jaykrown@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 17d
Everything nowadays involves data collection, there's no stopping it.
Turret3857@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 17d
black and white the world not is.
emmanuel_car@fedia.io · 2 pts · 17d
Only a Sith deals in absolutes
mortalic@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 18d
This is why I'm super excited for the slate truck. It's as dumb as a car can be, but modern EV tech. And a truck that's modular.
bowsertattoo@piefed.social · 5 pts · 18d
does it really not track you?
mortalic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17d
It doesn't even have a modem.
bowsertattoo@piefed.social · 2 pts · 17d
sick
jaykrown@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 18d
The design looks bad, Kei truck cab over wheel would have been much better.
mortalic@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 17d
Your priorities are out of place
jaykrown@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 17d
Not really, there are plenty of cab-overs throughout history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cab-over
The problem is the new USA obsession with driving a mini-tank at 80 MPH on residential streets while looking down at their phone.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 18d
Kei style cab over wheel on a small vehicle is incredibly dangerous. Your body should not be the crumple zone to protect cargo.
It only works for Semis and buses because they are the biggest vehicle on the road.
jaykrown@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 17d
Japan has a much lower car death rate on average than the US and they use these everywhere. The Kei style cab isn't the problem.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 17d
The Slate is being marketed to Americans. It needs to be a car that can survive American drivers.
jaykrown@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 17d
Yea I hate that idea. The USA is on track to collapse because of shit like this.
bowsertattoo@piefed.social · 6 pts · 18d
I still have my combustion car, but I use it as little as possible. Mostly I bike and take transit.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 18d
And they don’t have nearly the same ongoing maintenance parts costs.
Still need fossil fuels for lubricants, but to an incredibly lesser degree.
AlphaOmega@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 17d
Owned my EV for 1 year and so far I have had to buy a bottle of windshield wiper fluid.
Electric costs between $0.03 to $0.09 per mile, and the electric company is 100% solar powered.
The savings alone justifies driving an EV, plus you're saving the world as a bonus.
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 18d
Kinda wishing I had gone full EV instead of HEV with Toyota, but I'm still happy with my purchase.
paranoia@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 18d
Yeah this was a big part of my reasoning, but I am paranoid.