Conventional wisdom around owning a gas powered vehicle is to maintain it until either the engine or the transmission goes. The reason for this is not because e

Conventional wisdom around owning a gas powered vehicle is to maintain it until either the engine or the transmission goes. The reason for this is not because engines and transmissions are unreliable its because they are insanely expensive to manufacture and repair which often exceeds the value of the vehicle in the first place. As far as I'm aware with an electric vehicle there is no transmission and the electric motor is basically a spinning coil without any significant point of friction so its orders of magnitude cheaper to manufacture and replacement would be something your average consumer could potentially do themselves. Batteries are definitely the bottleneck but its basically the only area further innovation is needed for the foreseeable future. Basically what this means is that with electric vehicles you can continually drive and repair them until the chassis is no longer serviceable OR more likely your EULA runs out and you are forced to upgrade for licensing (software) reasons because there will be significant services revolving around these vehicles (autonomous driving, parking, recharging, repairs). edit: word