That's rediculous. Canada doesn't really have a choice here. We already had aluminum and steel tariffs imposed because we're "a national threat" for fucks sake.
When my mother in law has a problem with her iPhone and I plug it into my PC which is set up with my iPhone it does not 'just work'. It tries to erase the second phone. When I don't want to accept an upgrade or register my Apple ID it does not 'just work'. It nags me with no way to stop it. Apple fans tend to say 'it just works' without realizing that it just happens to work for them.
I have an iPhone 6 that I use as a test device and an mp3 player. The thing that annoys me about it is that it will continue to nag me about upgrades; like literally every time I unlock it I have to say no don't upgrade. It also nags me about registering an Apple account (no I don't want to attach my account, shut up!). Since I have iTunes set up to talk to this iPhone I can't help my mother in law with hers on my system lest iTunes get hopelessly confused and try to morph her phone into mine. It seems terribly designed.
Maybe the divide is the fact that I live in Canada and we aren't really subject to emissions laws, or the ones that are there only apply to vehicles manufactured after the day the law was enforced. I like driving old cars for a lot of reasons that go away in an EV conversion. The smell of the gas and oil, the sound of the exhaust, the sucking sound of the carb. Change the drive train to EV and that experience becomes like driving a new car with a lot of down sides because you have retrofit something that was never supposed to be there. It just seems far more efficient to call it what it is at that point and buy an EV if that is what you really want.
You can't. Gas tanks are at the back of the car normally, and putting something as heavy as a battery at the back of the car would cause the back end to swing out around corners.
I have a 66 and I used it as a daily driver in the summer for three years. Not sure what you mean by 'modern expectations', it accelerated faster than any new car I had driven and that's what I found fun about it. Anyway, my point is, if you convert a car to electric it's not the same car, it's a different car.
Anyone who does this isn't really a fan of the car itself, they like the idea of the prestige of being seen driving the car. A fan of the car itself would want it to drive as much as possible like it did the first day out of the factory.
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Notes is better than people understand, but you talk too much.
Notes was the wiki well ahead of its time.
Notes was the wiki, but well over 10 years before the wiki was invented.
Amazon... everywhere people are desperate.
That's rediculous. Canada doesn't really have a choice here. We already had aluminum and steel tariffs imposed because we're "a national threat" for fucks sake.
America, home of the fucked and the... no, that's it.
Like maybe a Miata
But then you don't want a Mercedes 560SEC, you want some other car that has a similar size and shape but handles better.
TheFakeTimCook is always angry when people find faults with his products.
That's just because it was a shitty fingerprint reader.
What is the point of using Google Maps without location tracking?
When my mother in law has a problem with her iPhone and I plug it into my PC which is set up with my iPhone it does not 'just work'. It tries to erase the second phone. When I don't want to accept an upgrade or register my Apple ID it does not 'just work'. It nags me with no way to stop it. Apple fans tend to say 'it just works' without realizing that it just happens to work for them.
Wages went up 3% last year. Does that even beat inflation?
I have an iPhone 6 that I use as a test device and an mp3 player. The thing that annoys me about it is that it will continue to nag me about upgrades; like literally every time I unlock it I have to say no don't upgrade. It also nags me about registering an Apple account (no I don't want to attach my account, shut up!). Since I have iTunes set up to talk to this iPhone I can't help my mother in law with hers on my system lest iTunes get hopelessly confused and try to morph her phone into mine. It seems terribly designed.
Maybe the divide is the fact that I live in Canada and we aren't really subject to emissions laws, or the ones that are there only apply to vehicles manufactured after the day the law was enforced. I like driving old cars for a lot of reasons that go away in an EV conversion. The smell of the gas and oil, the sound of the exhaust, the sucking sound of the carb. Change the drive train to EV and that experience becomes like driving a new car with a lot of down sides because you have retrofit something that was never supposed to be there. It just seems far more efficient to call it what it is at that point and buy an EV if that is what you really want.
Except this isn't preservation. It's taking an old body and putting it on a new car.
You can't. Gas tanks are at the back of the car normally, and putting something as heavy as a battery at the back of the car would cause the back end to swing out around corners.
Feel free to riot
FIFY.
But if it's great handling you are after, then just buy a car with great handling.
I have a 66 and I used it as a daily driver in the summer for three years. Not sure what you mean by 'modern expectations', it accelerated faster than any new car I had driven and that's what I found fun about it. Anyway, my point is, if you convert a car to electric it's not the same car, it's a different car.
They could do it for a reasonable cost, they just refuse to do anything that they lose money on.
My day is never quite complete if I don't get input from the anal retentive crowd. Thank you for that.
My day is never quite complete if I don't get input from the anal retentive crowd. Thank you for that.
Well, the fact that you don't believe me doesn't make it any less true. We don't pay the whole $2000, we pay something like $450.
Anyone who does this isn't really a fan of the car itself, they like the idea of the prestige of being seen driving the car. A fan of the car itself would want it to drive as much as possible like it did the first day out of the factory.