Federal Law for Builds Using >60VDC

Kill a first responder with your contraption after a crash, then have the lawyer you've retained for $25k convince a jury that he'll stipulate that you are the builder, you are the designer, you made the decision to ignore the CFR, you are the assembler, but you are not the manufacturer (because you are trying to loophole your way out of the CFR) of said culprit vehicle.

There is NO reasonable (what juries and judges do...they reason on facts) explanation as to why the 60V rule would not apply to a DIY electric vehicle operating on a public road or highway. None. You are all trying to rationalize why it should not and a judge ain't gunna buy your shit to get out of a negligence/manslaughter legal proceeding against you, the manufacturer. The only difference is a manufacturer offers goods for sale. Is that enough to get you out of killing someone? I don't think so.

You also stand a much better chance of getting extracated if you are in the local fire department's records as FMVSS voltages compliant, versus having firefighters stand around, smoking a cigarette (something you can't do around a crashed gasoline car) until they toll the time for your battery to self discharge below 60V. So, just before you pile into that telephone pole, turn on your electric cabin heater..

The main point you're missing is the trained/alert ones won't go near a DIY until an expert is on scene.

So, the first responder gets bumped to third responder, and then a fourth responder gets to use the firehose on your total bleedout.

The untrained FRs responding to a "sleeper" conversion, won't even know it's an EV until after the chop saw has cut the HV cables running in conduit (for "safety"...).

Ignorance and dismissal is powerful. Dunning-Kruger is affirming.

The sad thing is ignorance f*cks with my hobby in terms of it being banned unless I am a certified commercial shop. This is the BS I have to go through in restoring my bent Tesla. Do you really want to bust your butt, spend $30k, only to have a law that says you need a $5k safety inspection before you can get plates or publicly charge (even on a Level 2). Is that what you want?

Hence my persistence in getting through to the hypothalmus-challenged that are blind to what will happen if one responder gets killed and their family gets all activist.

It's bad enough EV jockeys get cut off on roads, teen daughters get chased down by pickup trucks in their Teslas, and you get coal-rolled if your EV window is open, by jacked up F250 diesels, now imagine one of them is the activist brother of an electrocuted FR tow truck driver (because the lucky rubber-gloved FD dude with the chopsaw exposed the HV cables that that the tow operator then happened to contact with his J-hooks).