>>1621688>understood by the aftermarket.The aftermarked is generally 10-15 years behind actual development, sometimes even more.
Generally what saves the aftermarked is that technologies do not change. So you can copy a piston but use more expensive materials, or other small things that fundamentally do not do anything significant.
These small operations allows the aftermarked to save up money for actual changes of the systems they operate on, either because manufacturers skimp on parts to make cars affordable... or because there is new tech for F1 and motor sports that won't be in consumer models(but it can be bolted on!)
With EV so far we have seen the continuation of a few trends:
A electronic sensor that sends digital data and is interpreted by a computer that then adjusts a part, can do a lot more than a analog set of parts doing the same operation. And it generally gets more durable as connecting parts is removed. This is a trend start started in the 80s, where it would evolve into the idea of "drive by wire", where each sealed part of the machine isn't interconnected.
With a EV we are just seeing the continuation of that trend: Compress and send digital data, interpret it, and do the thing. Removal of combustion parts just means there is entire parts lacking a counterpart.
The non EV counterpart is doing exactly the same, but they are still stuck in platforms from the early 2000s, and the car industry moves at a snails pace unless forced.
You drive by wire to get rid of parts. Drive by wire then fails due cost cutting, just like how turbos or ACs fail due cost cutting or lack of maintenance.
>but they are prevented from doing so by laws:)
The general problem is that you can't buy subchips, which often fry first. Anything doing encoding or translation is generally the last part to go, as they stem from production lines intended for ICBMs and heavy duty sensors, which means durability is just a evolutionary passdown.
