Posted Oct 1, 2022, 4:17 PM
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Volatile Pacivist
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Nova Scotia
Posts: 9,595
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Originally Posted by Architype
Again, I'm not anti EV, but there are differences so it's a little early for rhapsodizing. I'll stand by what I said because EVs are still a new technology. Of course there are clubs for everything, but any EV car culture is a continuation of existing car culture. Teslas can be modded aesthetically but perhaps not so much in terms of performance etc. And I live where I can literally look out my window and see two or three Teslas parked sometimes, and I know some Tesla owners. Can you go pick up a used 10 year old EV for say $5000, and go ahead and swap the engine, etc., as can be done with an old Celica or Mustang for example? Elon Musk's company is also very proprietary, so Teslas are not easy to mod - and what would you, or could you change anyway, except for aesthetics, sure a wing, a stripe, some new wheels, and a nice wrap. 
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Well yes, EV car enthusiast culture is a continuation of existing car culture because EVs are just... cars. The claim we were refuting was that EVs were somehow so fundamentally different that when they usurp ICE cars it would destroy car enthusiast culture. Fortunately you now seem to acknowledge that this isn't the case since the existing culture is continuing happily along with a few differences.
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