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[Omega Speed master] Are Electric Vehicles the New Quartz Watches? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by kingjamesporn@alien.top to c/watches@style.land

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Are Electric Vehicles the New Quartz Watches?

So, a series of awful circumstances lead me to owning a Tesla. The INSANE rebates and Tesla's discounts made this car cost me less than $24k new. Honestly, I think that is exactly what it is worth. For note: Elon is awful and I kind of hate myself for owning this car. However...it is amazing. I am not a car person. I don't drive fast. I just need a reliable way to get to work. There is no romance about cars for me...usually. This basically runs on a upscaled version of my toothbrush. It runs on software that looks like my 2017 Android. But it is an amazing car. I love my Speedy, but it makes no sense as a watch if you don't love watches. A smartwatch costs 1/10th the price and is massively more functional for most people. A Timex is 1/100th and equally functional. Are we about to enter a period where EVs become stupid cheap to build (Imagine a car version of a $500 Amazon Ebike. $7-8k easily.)? Will we romanticize a gas engine the way we do a mechanical watch? My thoughts? Absolutely.

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[–] timestudies4meandu@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just like the swiss time trials when Seiko took over the accuracy on mechanical swiss, Ev's have destroyed ICE vehicles

[–] M3Core@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I think you'll be surprised in the next 20 years at where the auto industry is going. EVs are not sustainable.

There's a reason Toyota is sticking with Hybrid and not going all-in on pure EV, and it's not because Toyota isn't keeping up.

[–] Prisma_Cosmos@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't EVs be more like the Swiss quartz movements that beat the Japanese and Swiss mechanicals (which would be ICE)?

[–] M3Core@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Actually I think that's a pretty good comparison right now. So many EVs are built very cheaply, and might be technically more efficient at getting you from place A to B, but the romance, excitement, quality, and heritage are almost always an after thought.

I know there are some Tesla-truthers that will find that offensive, but after getting the chance to drive their newest Tesla for an entire day up to the S P100D, and riding along in a friend's Rivian, I'm always happy to get back into my ICE cars I've owned over the years.

[–] Kevin6849@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the Elon rant none of us needed.

[–] BeeLuv@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It’s an interesting thought. I like mechanisms. I like elegant engineering. My cars have always been stick-shift, I prefer my acoustic bikes to my ebike, prefer hand powered coffee grinders and can openers to electric ones.

But I am enamored with solar quartzes.

Dunno what the theme would be. Elegance, simplicity, accuracy, independence, least tech required to do the job right?

I can see electric cars replacing petrol cars. Certainly in areas where people can throw solar panels on top of their garage and charge their car off-grid. (Micro-grids are the future in any case.)