> EV energy systems are more stockpilable and shelf-stable than ICE systems because they allow stockpiling productive energy capacity, whereas ICE systems only allow stockpiling consumable fuel.
Assume that to be true. Given that, which EV available on the USA market maximizes all of:
- the least dependent on cloud services for basic operation (this one is most important)
- most user-maintainable
- most user-customizeable
- long-term reliable
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quoting#askNostr - what would be your number one Electric Vehicle choice be if you were to suppose a full societal collapse shit hit the fan scenario?
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I know, I know, EVs are basically big-tech smartphones on wheels - but I'm starting from the premise that if there was little to no industrial capacity online, it would be comparatively easier to stockpile solar panels or wind turbines and batteries with longer shelf life than you could stockpile gasoline. I'm thinking about maintainable sovereignty with minimal dependencies.
Simply: for EV engines, you can stockpile energy _production_ (simple solar/wind tech). for ICE, you cannot. So you're stuck with the shelf-life of however much gas you can squirrel away.
A dumb, computer-less ICE is way more maintainable and reliable than a computerized EV, yes - but if you have nothing to pour into it to make it move, it's just a chunk of metal.
So all that said: If you had to choose the most maintainable, least cloud-dependent, most likely to run for the longest in a mad max scenario EV, which would it be? personally, I'm not convinced ANY of them would even turn on in a grid-down scenario, but I've never done the research.