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There's a huge amount of shit between the lines here...
For one, that labor isn't going to be the purview of the union friendly grease monkeys. It's going to be the purview of nerdy science club motherfuckers that likely won't be the union type.
Much of the tooling is useless. Much of the skillset is useless. The writing is on the wall for those unions, an electric car is nothing like an ice car.
I early adopted on a zero motorcycle, and ended up with enough prototype/first year glitches that I only got 8k miles out of the bike before the company bought back all the 2012 bikes, but that was long enough to understand how entirely unlike a traditional vehicle the thing was. I'd get routine emails from the dealer offering oil changes on a bike with no oil, I'd look around the bike to figure out if there actually was any sort of routine maintenance (and came up with zero, to strike a pun). And when I did need help with registering a new sensor to the motor, that I'd replaced myself because I couldn't find any sort of shop that would do it, the dealer spent two hours trying to sort out how to get the bike online, failed, and declared that they were no longer a zero dealer and wouldn't support the bike they'd sold me.
The current gas vehicle infrastructure is completely unprepared, unsuited, unwilling, and incapable of supporting an EV. You'd probably have better luck with the dude at the little kiosk that offers cell phone repair, literally...
The article describes a gaggle of dinosaurs looking up to the sky at a meteor that's about to wreck their shit completely. They're going extinct and all this nonsense is bullshit about how they'll be fine.
There might be an alligator or a horseshoe crab out there that'll make the transition, but I bet it ain't gonna be anyone referenced here :)
This is partly true, but the comparison to motorcycles is a little off.
What will be effected is jobs on the drivetrain. A motorcycle is almost entirely drivetrain, so you would have seen the most extreme version of this change. Cars have a lot more in them: climate, seats, soundproofing, doors.
Those jobs wouldn't be impacted by electrification. Its the automation part that is at play there.
I'm of the opinion that the computer/electronics nerd community is probably more suited to adding seats, doors, and climate control than the car building community is to adding battery arrays, BMS, and all the other gizmos and gadgets....
I understand what you mean, but I'm speaking more to the infrastructure. The infrastructure of the phone repair kiosk guy is closer to EVs than Detroit is. It's mindset, ya know? It's sending an email every 3 months offering oil changes vs knowing that the "gas station" of the future should include tables, chairs, snacks, and overpriced coffee ;)
The livewire is a great example of what I mean... its like it was built to support the service department more than the rider. It's got a transmission full of fluid that needs serviced that only has one gear. It's got a service required coolant system that other electrics don't have. It has requirements to visit the shop baked into the design, and it's silly. As soon as they parted from HD, the bike radically changed, because gearheads aren't calling the shots anymore. The bike has 10% of the service requirements at half the cost, because nerds (and I mean that endearingly... Im a nerd that turned gearhead, ironically) are designing them now :)
Any time there are moving parts, there is wear. Thats how phones and vehicles will stay different? Is this example, since they determined they needed a gearbox, it makes sense to use fluid. It keeps it lubricated and cooled, extending the lifespan. Probably makes it quiter, too