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Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? (www.carsandhorsepower.com)
submitted 1 day ago by Changelin@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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For over a century, the automobile has represented freedom, power, and the thrill of mechanical mastery. The connection between driver, machine, and road defined what it meant to own and love a car. But in today’s digital era, a different trend is unfolding. Cars are no longer just machines designed to take us from point A to point B. Increasingly, they resemble something else entirely: smartphones on wheels.

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[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You can convert an older car to electric. As basic as it gets but with a new mode of power

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

For $40,000 plus.

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 1 points 19 minutes ago

Also the price of most new cars.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

When I ask car people about that they say (basically) "no, it won't fit".

[–] Giblet2708@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 20 hours ago

Yes, there can be challenges about where to put the batteries, and some vehicles are certainly easier than others. But that hasn't stopped a LOT of people from doing it anyways.

30 seconds of internet searching will show plenty of retrofits. One guy retrofitted a 1980s Delorean with a Chevy Bolt electric powertrain, and now it accelerates twice as fast as it ever did with gasoline.