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Engines and transmissions last 15+ years, easily 20+ with regular maintenance. Everything else you mentioned is cheap and easy to replace. Yes, other than the
by dahfizz 4y ago
Engines and transmissions last 15+ years, easily 20+ with regular maintenance. Everything else you mentioned is cheap and easy to replace.
Yes, other than the battery, EVs are very low maintenance. But that doesn't matter at all to low income people who usually buy 10 year old cars. They are guaranteed to owe a large repair bill on any car that is available to them.
- adrianN 4y agoBatteries last a long time too. The Leaf is a bad example because they messed up the battery management somehow, but there are Teslas on the road with lots of miles and very little battery degradation.
- michaelt 4y agoBatteries last well when you have a large one (daily commute is a 15% discharge, not a 90% discharge) and active thermal management. The EVs I see on the second-hand market for $2000 have neither. It'll be a few years before I can get a used tesla for $2000.
- adrianN 4y agoI don't think many people claim that the used EV market is very good right now. It will become a lot better in another ten to twenty years though.
- WorldMaker 4y agoThere's an interesting statistical bias in the Used EV Market that first owner life statistics are way up on average versus comparable ICE models. We're edging past the point where that's likely "just" a symptom of early adopters and it may indicate easier maintenance curves on EVs and longer useful lifetimes for EVs and that the used EV market may look very different than the used ICE market. Though as stated, it will likely be another decade or two before we have a stable market to figure that out.