> I'm not sure, but I expect that I don't have to change oil every year in an electric car The only critical replacement is brake calipers and fluids: https://

> I'm not sure, but I expect that I don't have to change oil every year in an electric car The only critical replacement is brake calipers and fluids: https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modelx/en_eu/GUID-E95DAAD9-646E-4249-9930-B109ED7B1D91.html https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modelx/en_eu/GUID-E95DAAD... Brakes tend to last much longer because the car uses the motor to brake. Some Tesla motors are oil-cooled, some are just air cooled and the reducer just uses grease[1] instead of oil. There are no piston rings, no blow-by, no sliding friction, no wear items, the temperature stays below 100 C, the pressure is always ambient, and the case is completely watertight. The oil/grease can last practically forever. > I can bring 100L gasoline with me to add 1000 km range on top of existing 500 range. Driving 12 hours at a time is unsafe and you should not do it. If you are regularly driving 1500 km into wasteland, an electric car is not for you. If you only do it a few times a year, I recommend renting. > I can charge it within 5 minutes, not 5 hours. Have you not heard? They can charge 200 miles in 15 minutes. > It does not get worse with every year It's a car. They absolutely get worse every year. Driving at high speed over bad roads takes a toll and all cars fall apart over time. > Electric cars probably are the future, but I don't like this future. They don't have a soul. Did televisions, before flatscreens replaced them? I don't think so. I think it was just the nostalgia for a time when it was new and important. But a car now is a conveyance. 99.99% cars have as much soul as an elevator- another thing that used to be special and personal. If you want soul in the thing you drive to work, you always had to buy something special. You did not find it in a Honda Civic. If you want that, buy a motorcycle, or an E100 car. Those things will still exist even if EVs completely replace gasoline, because they just aren't the same thing. You are not afraid of electric cars replacing racecars, or grand tours through the mountains or deserts or forest. You are sad about electric cars replacing 8 lanes of LA traffic, of I-98 being quiet, of less children with asthma. That's a silly thing to be sad about. The soul of driving is not going anywhere. [1]: Because I NEVER tire of saying it: grease is amazing. It seems inefficient because it's thick like peanut butter, but it's the best. It's shear-thinning, so that as soon as it starts moving, it spreads into an incredibly thin low-viscosity layer that's just as frictionless as oil. Unlike oil, it never drips off, never needs pressure, always covers the surface. Contamination works itself out automatically (unlike in oil, where it's recirculated). It's chemically and thermally stable. Grease is the BEST.