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That is what EVs are for. Replace the battery every few years and replace your car whenever a new incompatible plug standard comes out.
by cabirum 3y ago
That is what EVs are for. Replace the battery every few years and replace your car whenever a new incompatible plug standard comes out.
- panick21_ 3y agoExcept in actual reality EV battereis are pretty damn reliable and plugs are pretty standardized and wont change much at all for at least a decade or more. In Europe is already standard. The US will switch to NACS but that's what most cars sold in the US already had and by 1-2 years from now all new cars will be NACS.
- jeffbee 3y agoCan we please not spread weird conspiracy theories? EV battery replacements are vanishingly rare and nobody is secretly pushing EVs as a way to punish the public.
- bongobingo1 3y agoI assume its much more likely your "extended range subscription" will expire or get hiked to oblivion vs a battery needing replacement.
- pjc50 3y agoManufacturers and especially dealers are having to be pushed into EVs.
- simmerup 3y agoSilly point when you consider that manufacturers love the fact that an ICE vehicle has to go into the garage for new parts every few months
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- twh270 3y agoHyperbolic bull*it. Modern ICE cars regularly run for tens of thousands of miles with nothing more than an oil change.
- DiggyJohnson 3y agoThis point seems overrated. Service on a modern ICE car is pretty minimal, and I don't see it as something manufacturers really care about. Maybe dealerships, perhaps.
- huytersd 3y agoRecommended maintenance is every six months. That’s considerable and really only applicable to new cars.
- rascul 3y agoThat is not normal in my experience.
- vasdae 3y agoThis is the kind of thing that people here in HN believe? No wonder you're looking forward to electrics then.
- huytersd 3y agoAlmost everyone has an ICE vehicle. There no reason to “believe” anything.
- Glyptodon 3y agoI've needed about 2 repairs on my 13 year old ICE vehicle over those 13 years, and one was under warranty. I think it'll need some more work soon, but still, it's not a lot of repairs.
- BeetleB 3y agoAs I posted elsewhere, I've always tracked my expenses. From 2011 to 2018, I spent about $2300 on maintenance and repairs. That's parts, labor and oil changes. And it was a 2003 car, so fairly old. Look up reliable cars. Buy them used. It's much cheaper. I have the numbers going back to 2007.
- FireBeyond 3y ago"new parts every few months"? Come on now. Hell, I bought a new high performance vehicle. Drove it up to the dealership for its 5k oil change. They could easily have said "sure, no problem" and charged me $150ish for the privilege. "Sir, unless you've been tracking the car and driving it very hard, 10K is the oil change interval. Sorry you wasted your trip". In your world, they would have taken my money.
- deelowe 3y agoTotal cost of ownership for evs is vastly lower than ices. The number of mechanical parts is two orders of magnitude less for an ev.
- eppp 3y agoAnd yet they cost a ton more. It is madness and incredibly frustrating.
- huytersd 3y agoThey cost about 20% more, for now. That’s not a ton considering you can break even on gas alone in 2-3 years, depending on how you drive.
- Glyptodon 3y agoI can't see how. New to new, a cheap ICE economy car can still run low $20s and your total fuel costs over 3 years will probably be under $2k. And even a cheaper EV like a Chevy Bolt won't make up the difference. It seems like the gap only gets worse when comparing higher up the price curve hybrids to their EV cousins.
- p_j_w 3y agoThey also have vastly lower maintenance and repair costs. Real analyses of this stuff has been done and EVs win every time.
- Glyptodon 3y agoI totally believe this if the vehicles have similar initial costs, and I can imagine that if the EV has higher re-sale value used, it might help too. But I have a hard time seeing how you can make up the price difference between a relatively reliable compact hybrid and its EV version - take a Kia Niro (just because offhand I know it comes in EV and Hybrid): Hybrid is like $27k, EV is like $40k (though hybrid used to be more like $24k). If you own for 10 years what's going to eat that $13k difference? Just better resale in 10 years? Oil change once a year, a few medium repairs, and cost of gas vs electricity don't get you there.
- oblio 3y agoIn Europe and a lot of the rest of the world the plug us standardized BY LAW, as it should be. In the US they're converging to NACS and the adapter for it is cheap... At least use correct arguments against EVs