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The transition to EV will hurt the dealerships in the long run. Not much you can swindle out from a customer if all that the car has is brake fluid, AC unit, a
by kumarvvr 3y ago
The transition to EV will hurt the dealerships in the long run.
Not much you can swindle out from a customer if all that the car has is brake fluid, AC unit, a motor, a battery and chips.
I also suspect that diagnostic systems or helpers will allow regular users to troubleshoot their car themselves, and become more immune to swindling by service centers.
No wonder they dont want to sell EVs
- pengaru 3y agoIf Tesla door handles and Model X complexity in general are any indication, there'll be no shortage of stupid gimmicks needing regular maintenance/repair.
- Kirby64 3y agoObviously those have reliability issues (which, have mostly been fixed to my knowledge, as the design defect was fixed), but how is that any different from the myriad of issues of 'high complexity' gas powered cars? Everyone tells you to avoid older Mercedes S-class cars, precisely because there's so much random crap that can break. Seems like most EVs trend away from those gimmicks, though. It's mostly on touchscreens, which don't really have meaningful failure mechanisms, unlike all the mechanical contrivances in say, an S-class.
- ianai 3y agoYou still need to rotate tires pretty often. You have a point, but the world has to move on from oil.
- tomalbrc 3y agoSeeing how bad EVs actually are for consumers it's no surprise. Heck, I would buy a dinosaur burning car if i had to choose today
- ryukoposting 3y agoI drive a 23 year old car, and the only thing I've had to replace that I wouldn't have to replace on an EV is a timing belt. EVs are heavy. Their weight eats through tires, and reduces the service life (or increases cost) of suspension components. The battery in my mother's Chevy Volt is doing fine at 10 years and 100k+ miles, but there's no telling what condition it will be in at year 15 or 20 - both reasonable benchmarks for durability that no mainstream EV has reached yet.
- shaftway 3y agoEVs don't require oil changes.
- anikom15 3y agoThey do require tire rotations.
- shaftway 3y agoNobody said they're zero-maintenance. > I drive a 23 year old car, and the only thing I've had to replace that I wouldn't have to replace on an EV is a timing belt. We're discussing things you have to replace in 23 years of owning an ICE car that you don't have to replace on an EV.
- ryukoposting 3y agoThis is trivial maintenance I do in my driveway in 20 minutes. Frankly, I forgot to consider it.