The "fewer moving parts" myth needs to die. IC engines themselves are extremely reliable, it's usually something else that finally kills an old car. Just think

The "fewer moving parts" myth needs to die. IC engines themselves are extremely reliable, it's usually something else that finally kills an old car. Just think about it: a very high mileage car does maybe 300 000 miles. At an average speed of 30 mph that's only 10 000 hours of running, or 420 days continuously. IC engines in generators, excavators, ships, trains, heck even in aircraft routinely do many many multiples of this before they are scrapped. For any part on a vehicle, IC or EV, it's possible to make it last fifty thousand hours no problem. But value engineering is a thing, so companies will make stuff cheaper and cheaper until it lasts only for 10k hours, or maybe 2k for a "regular replacement part". There is absolutely no reason they won't do exactly the same value engineering on an EV car as an IC car.