[agumonkey]

Car maintenance is such a huge burden. I don't want see car mechanics out of job, but sincerely the amount of money wasted in parts is astonishing (included the high labour cost due to massive amount of parts and differences in configurations to deal with).

Once the average person knows the maintenance cost is that low it will probably provide yet another inflection in EV curve adoption.

[tomcam]

And you’re being charitable here, because you are omitting the all-too-frequent case of work being done when it’s not necessary. That’s what bugs the hell out of me.

[agumonkey]

Yes indeed, this industry is filled with obscure improper and/or fake work because we rely on cars too much and are hostages.

Makes me think a tiny city open source hardware EV, with a pedagogical ecosystem, would be cool

[tomcam]

So I love that, but here in the USA we have super tight safety standards. Any ideas on how to handle that?