As a former mechanic/foreman I left the industry because the pay is poor not from lack of work. Trying to retain good employees is the biggest challenge, not any lack of work. The changes aren't that big nor that fast, it's like going from carbs to EFI, from mostly manuals to autos to CVT, from A simple stereo to a full infotainment system. Everyone will adapt, get trained on job etc. 30 years ago they said you'll need to be an auto electrician instead of mechanic. Other industries require the same skills & are paying vastly more.
No car ownership planned, after our household petrol cars expire! Train, historic motorcycles, and occasional rentals will be the future. Dad is already £6/mile, I'm at least 43p/mile. Early retired and motoring costs unrealistic escalation Vs income, just have to accept, can't have a car. Perhaps not just mechanics, businesses reliant drop in customers arriving by car, might change their operation model. No point having a car , and having much less money to spend once you get there. Younger folks need all their money for budget outstripping accomodation costs. Wider implications indeed. Wait for the day when EVs are disabled via embeded tech......
@@my_motorcycle_hobby_jf2125 You’ve hit the nail on the head with this comment. People will have two choices. Buy and electric car or don’t, petrol cars will be forced off the road.
@@IanClark-s9e I agree, we will always need mechanical expertise. EV technology is not anywhere near as far behind as the general public think it is. If mechanics and garages don’t adapt now they will spend the next 10 years playing catch-up #ThrottleJunkies
If they are going to remove ICE then why are they still building new fuel stations?. Hybrids are selling but EV's are not so mechanics will still be needed for the foreseeable future.
I do see your point, however, mechanical systems will still need to be repaired. With the added, and dangerous burden of having to deal with a volatile and dangerous battery subsystem which would require its own separate approach. For, without this, the EV would become just become another disposable product, of immense environmental harm.
EV's won't take over, physics will take care of that. If you want to be environmentally friendly keep your old cars, every EV produces a huge amount of pollution both CO2 during production and massive plastic pollution, which maybe linked to massive increase in bowel cancer due to average person eating a credit card of plastic a week in their food. Plus heavy metal pollution of waterways from the batteries when it dies in six to eight years or so. We as mechanics are not scared of change if it is better, which EV's are not. To the detriment of those that will follow us, there is not enough raw materials in the world to replace 30% of the ICE fleet.Please do the research, I already have. Also if we use all those materials, nothing else electronic will be made or will be hugely expensive as we wasted all of our raw materials on short run, plastic garbage that will be poisoning us and or descendants for many years to come. All to keep shareholders happy. People who become mechanics do so because they love cars. not appliances. I'll keep on working on my environmentally friendly old ICE vehicles, BTW, there is no special; training required to work on an EV other than deactivating the battery, the rest is just electronics like we deal with every day. Plus a few cooling systems, we won't be fixing motor controllers and motors will be just replaced. The rest is BCM BS we all love to hate. Plus the manufacturers will lock out everything as there is no right to repair laws. No we are just going to end up with allot more pollution for little result.
@@Checklight66 It doesn’t really matter what any of our opinions are, and this is the point I’m trying to make. A million people can have the same “EVs are bad” opinion, it takes a room of government officials to flick the switch and petrols are finished. The change is coming, trust me on that.
The full honda accord of the 1990s service manual was in Japanese and cosisted of 1000 pages but we got on just fine at college training with the donated water damaged car it was stripped down and rebuilt several times and drove perfectly. how often do you see a mechnic with their nose in an instruction manual?
As a former mechanic/foreman I left the industry because the pay is poor not from lack of work. Trying to retain good employees is the biggest challenge, not any lack of work. The changes aren't that big nor that fast, it's like going from carbs to EFI, from mostly manuals to autos to CVT, from A simple stereo to a full infotainment system. Everyone will adapt, get trained on job etc. 30 years ago they said you'll need to be an auto electrician instead of mechanic. Other industries require the same skills & are paying vastly more.
No car ownership planned, after our household petrol cars expire!
Train, historic motorcycles, and occasional rentals will be the future.
Dad is already £6/mile, I'm at least 43p/mile.
Early retired and motoring costs unrealistic escalation Vs income, just have to accept, can't have a car.
Perhaps not just mechanics, businesses reliant drop in customers arriving by car, might change their operation model. No point having a car , and having much less money to spend once you get there.
Younger folks need all their money for budget outstripping accomodation costs.
Wider implications indeed.
Wait for the day when EVs are disabled via embeded tech......
@@my_motorcycle_hobby_jf2125 You’ve hit the nail on the head with this comment. People will have two choices. Buy and electric car or don’t, petrol cars will be forced off the road.
We will always need mechanical expertise! Ev technology is way behind!
@@IanClark-s9e I agree, we will always need mechanical expertise. EV technology is not anywhere near as far behind as the general public think it is. If mechanics and garages don’t adapt now they will spend the next 10 years playing catch-up #ThrottleJunkies
If they are going to remove ICE then why are they still building new fuel stations?. Hybrids are selling but EV's are not so mechanics will still be needed for the foreseeable future.
@@coobye I’ve covered all these topics in the video, as for why they are still building fuel stations I have no idea but it’s a dumb move.
I do see your point, however, mechanical systems will still need to be repaired. With the added, and dangerous burden of having to deal with a volatile and dangerous battery subsystem which would require its own separate approach. For, without this, the EV would become just become another disposable product, of immense environmental harm.
Hgv diesels will be here for many years ahead... Go hgv... Should get a few good years in the trade
@@user-bz9cb8bp2y I’m not even sure HGV drivers will be needed for much long, let alone the diesel HGVs. Automation is coming FAST!
EV's won't take over, physics will take care of that. If you want to be environmentally friendly keep your old cars, every EV produces a huge amount of pollution both CO2 during production and massive plastic pollution, which maybe linked to massive increase in bowel cancer due to average person eating a credit card of plastic a week in their food. Plus heavy metal pollution of waterways from the batteries when it dies in six to eight years or so.
We as mechanics are not scared of change if it is better, which EV's are not. To the detriment of those that will follow us, there is not enough raw materials in the world to replace 30% of the ICE fleet.Please do the research, I already have. Also if we use all those materials, nothing else electronic will be made or will be hugely expensive as we wasted all of our raw materials on short run, plastic garbage that will be poisoning us and or descendants for many years to come. All to keep shareholders happy.
People who become mechanics do so because they love cars. not appliances. I'll keep on working on my environmentally friendly old ICE vehicles, BTW, there is no special; training required to work on an EV other than deactivating the battery, the rest is just electronics like we deal with every day. Plus a few cooling systems, we won't be fixing motor controllers and motors will be just replaced. The rest is BCM BS we all love to hate. Plus the manufacturers will lock out everything as there is no right to repair laws. No we are just going to end up with allot more pollution for little result.
@@Checklight66 It doesn’t really matter what any of our opinions are, and this is the point I’m trying to make. A million people can have the same “EVs are bad” opinion, it takes a room of government officials to flick the switch and petrols are finished. The change is coming, trust me on that.
The decline is artificially created.
It doesn’t matter if it’s artificial or real, it’s happening
Do you recommend to learn Chinese so you can read the service manual 😂
@@lewis71980 No more than I’d recommend you learning Japanese to fix a Nissan or Honda now #ThrottleJunkies
The full honda accord of the 1990s service manual was in Japanese and cosisted of 1000 pages but we got on just fine at college training with the donated water damaged car it was stripped down and rebuilt several times and drove perfectly. how often do you see a mechnic with their nose in an instruction manual?
@@oojimmyflip Just what I thought to be honest, the original comment confused me a lot!