I don't even know what they're called, but I want to start a !cars. Because it would be so great to have a leftist space for car enthusiasts. Any time anything political comes up, you just get horribly out-of-touch hatred getting spewed everywhere in the comments section. People that have enough money to buy a corvette or used 911 tend to lean conservative.
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Expensive as fuck. There are other options though, like natural gas or bio diesel conversions.
it's not necessarily thaaaat expensive. Rich Rebuilds on youtube is doing a "cheap" electric (new) mini project and is aiming to be under 5k for the whole thing. some of it would be pretty hard to replicate because he does find an absolute steal on an old Zilla controller and lots of other stuff but if you do as he says and shop EV classifieds you can find people letting go of their projects for pennies on the dollar, usually just because they lost interest/drive with the project
I've heard of bio diesel conversion and sort of understand it, but how do you get a car to run on natural gas?
Just gonna pop this in hereeeee http://www.evfinder.com/classifieds.htm
Also, conversions are a lot of work that you basically have to do yourself, but the nice thing about DIYing an EV is once you get over the hump of understanding battery systems and dynamics you can design the car to meet your actual needs; like if you have a 5 mile commute in LA you can make a really usable city car for suuuuuper cheap
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Electric cars are still bad though. I'd imagine it be cheaper to just buy an electric car from the get go if you need a car.