Your Voice Has Been Heard on EVs

Whether you have a platform or not, we’ve all been in a place where you feel like your voice is not being heard and you are just shouting into the void. Believe it or not, that often happens as editor of an online magazine – you can see the page views on your screen but without that physical interaction point with the reader it almost feels fake or at least surreal. Conversely it feels very much the same as a reader, even when you write to an editor or post on social media about what you are reading. If there is one thing that will make you want to reach out and touch someone, it’s EVs. In our hobby nothing is more polarizing than EVs.

While we typically do not publish a “Letters to the Editor” (maybe we should?), I do want to assure those of you who feel like your voice is not being heard on EVs and provide a suitable response. For some, EVs can most certainly cause a visceral reaction – demonized to the point where now we are seeing this vitriol being aimed at hobbyists, shops, manufacturers, and content creators.

My own take on this is that this anger is merely spill-over from feeling marginalized, like you don’t have a voice, and that your opinions are not being represented in things that you read, policies being made, etc.

I can tell you that amongst the automotive media, Power Automedia included, opinions are mixed on EVs. Some are early adopters, embracing the technology. Some believe EVs lack the soul of an ICE vehicle. Some are somewhere in-between.

Personally, I am in the latter category. I love technology, but also have little tolerance for recalls, flaws, imperfections and lack of infrastructure which precludes me from being a true early adopter. I must also account for the fact that the sound of V8s specifically are what got me into cars, so much so that at certain points in my life I would not own anything that did not have a V8 (to the detriment of my bank account). And I mean this literally, I didn’t even like the sound of a V12 – and certainly not a V10.

Fast forward to 2023 and an LS swap is no longer a novel idea. It’s nearly become the status quo. EV swaps have become the new frontier. It’s a way to hot rod your vehicle in a new and exciting way, the same way LS swaps were in the early aughts. I’m not sure if I would invest my hard-earned money in doing an EV swap just yet, but I do embrace them and those that do them as part of our hobby. And I think you should, too.

If ever there was a vehicle that…