Todays ev’s are just a quick stepping stone towards fully autonomous society. Those embracing this ”new” tech are pushing the rest of us, who still enjoy driving our own cars, from driving. The vehicles will be just another add-on to the IOT and you will not be allowed to take your dangerous old school hot rod on the roads any longer. So if you like to drive and tinker with cars, EV’s of today and tomorrow will be the ticket that will put a full stop to this hobby.

I have nothing against using electric motors as your power source. Electric motors are nothing new, they were pretty popular even when the first automobiles were introduced. Big oil just wanted to keep that tech under the radar for a century. Now with the ’smart’ grid being in place and all this AI tech available, they are now able to utilize it with the electric motors to bring the autonomous vehicles to the market and take the human action out of the equation.

So people who are embracing this ’new’ tech are the ones making the transformation happen sooner.

They started testing this tech with gas powered vehicles, first with electric assisted brakes and steering, then they added the adoptive cruise and lane changing capabilities, park assist and all that and there’s now new caddys that are pretty much hard wired with automous features, so again it’s not as much the power source that puts me off, it’s the other added ’smart’ tech. With the 5G it will be like sitting in a microwave for your daily commute and your every word and action will monitored and reported to the owners of the system. This will have an effect on your social credit score later on ;D

Social engineering in the works, that’s it.

Got this the other day. Electric, stupid fast, only sound is the chain.

Stupid fast? YOU? Who'd a thunk? :rolleyes:

Charlie, what size is that? I grew up on dirt bikes and then graduated to crotch rockets. I've been out of the loop so long on dirt bikes, I didn't know they even made electric ones. I need to get back into them soon...real soon, because I promised my son I'd get him a dirt bike when he turned eight and he's 7 now. :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Electric cars vs muscle cars
 

Funny my wife's new Lexus sport utility has all the lane control and braking
safety items. She wishes she would have kept the old one
Does not like the car braking while going into the garage or messing
with her trying to change lanes

Too much technology for her

Bob

https://www.altamotors.co/

The problem is Alta recently folded and assets just auctioned off. There is a cult following because they are such great bikes. I think Bombardier bought the assets. Someone will revive it or use the technology. Stielow's idiot friend Ryan that wires his cars worked for Alta and hooked me up with a test bike. I think it makes about 42 hp, no transmission, 14000 rpm, 4 different power levels to select from, no gas tank, no oil to change, no air cleaner to service. The battery pack is denser than Tesla's. Totally sealed so you can actually drive it under water for maybe 20 minutes ?

I took my daughter to the NHRA drags here — she’d never been — The GM Camaro with the electric (Blue one) puts on a demonstration run — pulls the front wheels — goes like stink.... Adrienne and I both look at each other and shrug our shoulders.... a total “ho hum” experience.

Then the big boys start rolling — shaking the ground - knocking your senses silly - filling your lungs with Nitro.... Big s * * t eating grin on her face.....

Humans like sensory overload — we like our motors to shake and rumble - we love tires smoking - but we’re Neanderthals.... The millennials like the technology... My kids have cars - but they Uber everywhere...

Already happening in Ca.

Gas approaching 5$ a gal. "Summer Blend" all the gas Taxes don't help.
SMOG check
Loud car law, 95 dBA at the tail pipe on a chassis dyno if ticketed.


If you have a Tesla, don't worry about it, yet..

I wondered, since the power delivery is suppose to be so linear on the electric motors, if that would be fun doing wheelies on ?
broke a bunch of fenders on my 2-strokes when I was a kid.
Doug Domokos might have liked it.

I'm only interested in EV technology and transplants because my parents have a 1914 Rausch & Lang, which was originally electric.

According to Popular Science in the 50-60's, we should already be George Jetsons by now.