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I do t think a pure electric vs pure gas necessarily has more electronic components to fail. A modern gas engine has many electronic parts that allow it to work
by gehwartzen 9y ago
I do t think a pure electric vs pure gas necessarily has more electronic components to fail. A modern gas engine has many electronic parts that allow it to work and an electric drivetrain isn't exactly complicated. All the other aspects of a modern car are going to be the same; electric Windows, navigation, safety stuff. So I don't think there is anything inherently more likely to break, electronics wise.
Now the big difference is that it seems we have decided electric cars = autonomous cars. And I would agree that autonomous function opens the car to a whole host of electrical problems (sensors, computers, etc). But this would be the same in an autonomous gas powered car.
- gargravarr 9y agoI think what the author was getting at was things being unnecessarily electronic, such as door locks or even the glovebox (seriously, why do we need a push-button to open that?). Manual, mechanical devices are fairly reliable and if they fail, you can poke a screwdriver into the mechanism to get around the issue. Now imagine a bad firmware upgrade breaks the glovebox button on your Model 3 and your AAA card is in there...