11 Replies to “Zen and the art of EV maintenance???”

  1. In order for your battery to last more than 150 miles of driving … all EV’s MUST be as aerodynamic as possible. That precludes any variation in body styling. They’re all gonna look like a rolling flattened teardrop.

    So, just put any notion of styling variation in your new EV. Just think of them as Soviet cars … they were all gray econoboxes. The State allowed nothing else. Everything must be … equal.

  2. No they don’t. Most SUVs don’t either, Toyota, Honda, Nissan (etc) all look the same. One of the depressing sight around my area are the brand new townhouses they built in a development. Exactly the same on both sides of the street, with the same white SUVs parked outside. You could walk in the wrong one by accident even sober.

  3. I don’t really care to know. To me it’s pretty much the same as being offered to try homosexuality. The “you never know, you might like it” approach to life doesn’t compel me. I’ll leave electric cars to folks who like trying different things, because, you never know; they might like it.

    1. And if you were to TRY owning an EV … you’d have lots of opportunities to have gay sex in the back seat while waiting for your car to charge.

      1. See… that explains it! That’s the attraction! You couldn’t sell that one hour delay on the way home from work any other way. Electric cars are the perfect beard. It all makes sense now because I’ve always suspected these fellows, and their shared enthusiasm for “electric cars”.
        And at the charging stations, they sit there and text and text, and then others show up, all texting away. They arrive singly, hook up, and then drive off in pairs.
        Eeeeeesh!!!!
        There’s so many of them.

  4. Read any automotive review in an automotive magazine and they will invariably mention the sound of the engine. A bad sounding engine does nothing for sales. A good sounding engine enhances the sales figures and some research suggests it does the same for testosterone production.

  5. Great reference Brian! A formative novel from my youth.

    “On a cycle the frame is gone. You’re completely in contact with it all. You’re in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.”

    Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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