lancpudn:
Can you imagine those future classic ‘Barn Finds’ youtube videos like the Hagerty channel where they scour the country for classic cars.
Future barn finders would come across a Tesla model S that had been stored in a barn for 20 + years with them wondering if the battery is toast or how to get a 12volt feed to power it on & gain access to the cabin & then the car reporting back to the Tesla HQ mother ship as it would need a plethora of OTA updates just to switch it on then tell them the hardware & software of this vehicle is obsolete then shuts down
The truth is EV’s and the term Classic are mutually exclusive.
But I think you’re being too pessimistic.The hot rodding scene was always a type of pirate operation using its resourcefulness and initiative to solve these types of problems.
The home build 1,000 hp EV, possibly ICE conversion, is already easily doable.
It just won’t make the right big V8/V12 ICE noises but in theory it will probably be faster which helps with the ‘classic’ bragging rights if anything does.