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Tesla, Nissan Leaf, or Chevy Bolt - any electric car should have similar benefits in reduced maintenance costs.

by blktiger 9y ago

dmitrygr 9y ago
Yup, and only one of those makes you wait months for maintenance appointments
- toomuchtodo 9y ago
  I'd still rather buy a Tesla. Edit: look up how many people GM killed with their ignition switch recall (124). I'm not putting my wife and daughter in a legacy automaker vehicle just because those cars get fixed faster https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_switch_recalls https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_swit...
  - woofyman 9y ago
    11 cars had zero fatalities over a 4 year period. http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/25/autos/safest-and-deadliest-cars-on-the-road/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/25/autos/safest-and-deadliest-c...
    - toomuchtodo 9y ago
      How many are manufactured by an auto company that's attempting to accelerate the transition to electric mobility? Zero. Your list provided is composed primarily of poor fuel mileage SUVs.
SeanLuke 9y ago
Tesla and Chevy have sophisticated cooling systems for their batteries. The Nissan Leaf does not. IIRC Nissan has had considerable battery degradation issues in hotter climates, like Arizona. And a failed battery is one heck of a maintenance cost.
ctdonath 9y ago
I had a Leaf for 2 years. Maintenance costs were practically nonexistent (more than covered by the wildly overpriced, and still low, up-front prepayment). Seems all they did was change an air filter a couple times. EXCEPT the tires. A surprisingly under-reported (hopefully because it may have been resolved) issue with EVs is they can wreck tires in a hurry. IIRC, I had to replace "65,000 mile" tires in 17,000 miles because they were near bald. That glorious incredible acceleration EV owners so enjoy when taking off from stoplights? the enormous torque tears that rubber up fast. Fortunately there are now tires built specifically for EVs and their intense strains, but I've not seen reports on how they're doing and expect they're relatively much more costly per-mile than tires for ICE vehicles.
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Tesla, Nissan Leaf, or Chevy Bolt - any electric car should have similar benefits in reduced maintenance costs.

dmitrygr 9y ago

Yup, and only one of those makes you wait months for maintenance appointments

toomuchtodo 9y ago
I'd still rather buy a Tesla. Edit: look up how many people GM killed with their ignition switch recall (124). I'm not putting my wife and daughter in a legacy automaker vehicle just because those cars get fixed faster https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_switch_recalls https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_swit...
- woofyman 9y ago
  11 cars had zero fatalities over a 4 year period. http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/25/autos/safest-and-deadliest-cars-on-the-road/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/25/autos/safest-and-deadliest-c...
  - toomuchtodo 9y ago
    How many are manufactured by an auto company that's attempting to accelerate the transition to electric mobility? Zero. Your list provided is composed primarily of poor fuel mileage SUVs.

SeanLuke 9y ago

Tesla and Chevy have sophisticated cooling systems for their batteries. The Nissan Leaf does not. IIRC Nissan has had considerable battery degradation issues in hotter climates, like Arizona. And a failed battery is one heck of a maintenance cost.

ctdonath 9y ago

I had a Leaf for 2 years. Maintenance costs were practically nonexistent (more than covered by the wildly overpriced, and still low, up-front prepayment). Seems all they did was change an air filter a couple times. EXCEPT the tires. A surprisingly under-reported (hopefully because it may have been resolved) issue with EVs is they can wreck tires in a hurry. IIRC, I had to replace "65,000 mile" tires in 17,000 miles because they were near bald. That glorious incredible acceleration EV owners so enjoy when taking off from stoplights? the enormous torque tears that rubber up fast. Fortunately there are now tires built specifically for EVs and their intense strains, but I've not seen reports on how they're doing and expect they're relatively much more costly per-mile than tires for ICE vehicles.

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