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Well I am going to have to say pure electrics might fare better but we will need ten years of playing with the tech to know for sure. All the electronics are go

Well I am going to have to say pure electrics might fare better but we will need ten years of playing with the tech to know for sure. All the electronics are going to be fun. Almost all the unusual entries are engine related. Before anyone runs off in celebration of pure EVs just note the number of vehicles being sampled. Issue arise from defects for sure, as they do for wear and tear. However a lot of issues on older cars are because of lack of care. One of the reasons manufactures like BMW include service for 4x50 is so that even the leased cars would get serviced. There are a few exaggerated entries on the list, one I know of is the Nissan Murano. Its listed quite high but that might have been because of the CVT issues faced in 05-07 that were remedied with Nissan extending the warranties.

cellularmitosis 10y ago
I'd also be afraid of the "theoretically more reliable pure electrics" suffering from premature failures due to poor implementation, as has happened recently in other markets. Compact fluorescents should last ~6x longer than incandescents, yet since the commoditization of them, you'll find the circuits in the cheaper ones often fail long before the fluorescent tube itself would have failed (I recently did a teardown of about 20 of my own failed CFL's. About 2/3 had functioning tubes with blown circuits). I similarly lament seeing an LED traffic light or LED vehicle tail light on the fritz, knowing that the individual LED's themselves probably had another 20 years of life left in them, yet met their fate early due to a bad solder joint or blown mosfet, etc...
outworlder 10y ago
The fun (additional) electronics on EVs are pretty standard stuff. Charger, inverter (do all EVs use AC induction motors? I think so), battery charge controller. They can be made very reliable and, at least for the popular EVs, they are indeed. I'd be worried about driving an EV created by some unknown chinese brand though.

cellularmitosis 10y ago

I'd also be afraid of the "theoretically more reliable pure electrics" suffering from premature failures due to poor implementation, as has happened recently in other markets. Compact fluorescents should last ~6x longer than incandescents, yet since the commoditization of them, you'll find the circuits in the cheaper ones often fail long before the fluorescent tube itself would have failed (I recently did a teardown of about 20 of my own failed CFL's. About 2/3 had functioning tubes with blown circuits). I similarly lament seeing an LED traffic light or LED vehicle tail light on the fritz, knowing that the individual LED's themselves probably had another 20 years of life left in them, yet met their fate early due to a bad solder joint or blown mosfet, etc...

outworlder 10y ago

The fun (additional) electronics on EVs are pretty standard stuff. Charger, inverter (do all EVs use AC induction motors? I think so), battery charge controller. They can be made very reliable and, at least for the popular EVs, they are indeed. I'd be worried about driving an EV created by some unknown chinese brand though.