There’s clearly going to be a market for transport and other machinery that is “old school” mechanical and does contain complicated electronics.
I know for automobiles, much of it is due to government mandates - but what about other things?
There’s clearly going to be a market for transport and other machinery.
Potomac mills, used to be Banks salvage.
It was so large that they had to build a rail line to the site and they set up a gigantic car shredder operation and they started feeding the car shredder ejecta into the rail cars and carted them off, probably to China. Once that happened all the old cars 40s,50s,60,70s... no longer any large viable source of used salvage parts.
I went in there when I was younger and I needed a 1962 Chevy Biscayne rear end with a mechanical Overdrive they sent a guy out to some place in that yard which was acres and acres and in about a half an hour there was a differential sitting on the counter and I think it cost me a hundred bucks or something like that. That place was remarkable.
“I know for automobiles, much of it is due to government mandates - but what about other things?”
People LIKE electronics. Tell them their columbine is self-driving or has a GPS display and they’ll buy it, certainly over the ones that have smelly carburetors, for example.