"Fewer Moving Parts"

 I have two old cars. One's a 1997 Ford F-250 with 226,000+ miles and one is a 2008 Honda Element with 230,000+ miles on it. The Element once had the timing chain replaced--that was due to a faulty oil filter from a local oil change joint (don't go to those places). The Ford engine has been running with no problem for 23 years. The serpentine belt broke once while I've owned it. That was the worst hassle I've experienced. That was a minor repair.

One of the things you hear about the benefits of electric cars is they have "fewer moving parts'. Sure. But they also have complex, expensive battery modules, power converters, and other components that will be failure prone. They also have many of the same moving parts as an internal combustion engine based car, like suspension components, which will wear out over time. But mainly the batteries will wear out over time and cost a substantial fraction of the value of the car to replace. This is an issue with hybrid cars today as they age. You can buy replacement, remanufactured used batteries that are cheap, but they'll have a very limited life. All those batteries from all those dead electric cars will need to be processed, and there will be some cost associated with that.

If a car engine can last multiple hundred thousand miles, who cares that it has moving parts? There's toyota cars with several hundred thousand miles on the original engine and transmission. The Japanese cars, especially Hondas and Subarus seem to even have solved the problem of road-salt corrosion. My element still looks pretty new underneath even though it's been through 12 winters in the snow belt.

In theory, a car or truck could last forever. Different materials could be used for a frame or body, and the engine and transmission could be designed to be more readily replaceable. Some purpose-built vehicles, like a farm tractor, will last forever with proper maintenance. I see people in my area using ancient tractors to clear their driveways in the winter--like 1940's International Harvesters. There's people mowing lawns with 1970s tractors.

The government mandated push toward electronic-everything seems really insane. The more I think about it, the less likely I think it is.

My current theory is the push toward an electronic slave grid is primarily about depletion of the Saudi oil fields and the end of the petrodollar system. The anglo/zio/american empire desperately wants to maintain hegemony and control of the world financial system. I'm fairly sure that's what the covid hysteria is about. There's probably already some deal in place with China and Russia to transition to some new fraudulent financial scam system.

The financial system and the western oligarchy are hostile to the population of the western world. That's probably the key thing to keep in mind. Get out of the system as much as possible and do something else. Get savings into other useful forms of stuff while there's still some time. I think it's probably not a dire situation yet... People in the former USSR lost all their savings as that empire collapsed and Russia got worked over by western neoliberals. I am not sure if the USA financial system would get the same treatment or not. Probably. The scum that run the country hate the US population.

I think long term, we'll still be using fossil fuels as the primary source of energy. I don't think we'll have a mostly electric car fleet for many years, unless key engineering problems are solved.