Hello Scotty, I just want to ask you what do you think about the future of auto mechanics? Do you think it's in a dying industry with the onset of electric vehicles?
Hi,
My thought of electric vehicles right off is, the batteries don't stand up in the cold.
I live in the mountains and at this time I don't know anyone that owns a electric vehicle.
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I think the future of electrical vehicles are way over-exaggerated. Not saying it is not likely to happen. Just in terms of time frame and chance. There is a reason that even tesla uses diesel trucks to transport their greener electric cars for example. Almost all big machinery on wheels will be running on diesel. I don't think that gas and diesel is going to go away any time soon. And even if there be such a radical change in the industry, if anything there will need to be a new boom of mechanics needed as the complexity of computer tech and fully modular electrical control will require new education and new overall understanding. And like any industry with machinery, if it breaks there will need to be someone who fixes it. Ya can't send a computer coder to reprogram a broken ball joint for example. Though with the prospect of new mechanics will probably be required to learn how computers will operate said future completely electric cars. I will think this will not be likely to happen soon ish unless the range of batteries increase (solidstate or otherwise), the processing speed of said modules to send and receive information through the can bus line, and the bulkyness of said systems on general, though are already jam packed, f using the exponential growth of future tech, there should be something completely new within the next 10 years to further this current understanding. Hence long story short, this will never in my opinion be a dying industry just because something new and exciting is on the horizon.
It’s taken 20 years to get 3% of people who purchased hybrid cars, these electric car folks are out of their rocker.
People are lazy and don't know how to do stuff. They will need people know how, to fix cars when they break, even electrical cars. That's where the mechanic come in.
Something I would tell the young car-guy teenage generation: learn a unionized trade (plumbing, welding, pipe fitting, carpentry etc) and learn to fix your car yourself. Better pay, job security, etc.
Because frankly being a mechanic isn't very much fun initially. It's a dirty and low paying job, in which you are constantly dealing with unhappy people.
A lot of people look at the job of being a mechanic through rose-colored glasses. This isn't to say you shouldn't consider it - just giving a bit of a pessimistic POV of the argument. bear with me.
Agree. If you want to do it professionally, you better LOVE working on cars, stress, overtime, being dirty all the time, bashing your knuckles, and dealing with people.
If you want to make good money doing it, you better specialize in exotics, off-roaders, custom work or something like that. You won't get rich changing brake pads and mufflers.
That is the impression I get from a unprofessional standpoint.
Just get a good scanner and learn it, just like you learned the internet and then You can bury all the money in your backyard. $100 for a scan and another $100 to provide the problem and after that wash your hands and give it to the next person in line. 😎
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