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why wouldn't an electric car be easier to service? A combustible engine has so many moving parts, fuel pump, filter, oil changes, regulator, etc etc. an electri
by matt_wulfeck 11y ago
why wouldn't an electric car be easier to service? A combustible engine has so many moving parts, fuel pump, filter, oil changes, regulator, etc etc. an electric car is just a battery and an electric engine, which is actually a pretty old peice of technology.
I do concede that the battery is a pretty complex piece of engineering. My fear is that DRM "authorized" replacements will become like the toner cartridges of the future.
- CalRobert 11y agoThe article discusses the difficulty of servicing a Tesla at length. Perhaps you should read it?
- mywittyname 11y agoIn practice, manufactures of EVs haven't been able to achieve the kind of reliability that most other auto makers have. You can buy a Camry and expect 100k miles on the drivetrain with reasonable maintenance costs. Edmund's had needed four drive unit replacements in their Model S to go half that far. ICEs are theoretically more complicated, but a few hundred million man-hours of refinement over the past 100 or so years have made them quite reliable.