Tesla recommends "cleaning and lubricating all brake calipers every 12 months or 12,500 mi for vehicles in cold weather regions" and "testing your brake fluid f

Tesla recommends "cleaning and lubricating all brake calipers every 12 months or 12,500 mi for vehicles in cold weather regions" and "testing your brake fluid for contamination every 2 years". https://www.tesla.com/support/vehicle-maintenance https://www.tesla.com/support/vehicle-maintenance That is regular maintenance. My main point - which I did not express well - is 'maintenance' should be the issue, not just routine maintenance. This break, and need to be fixed. Regarding Hertz, a news article at https://www.businessinsider.com/hertz-slows-down-electric-plans-tesla-2023-10?op=1&r=US&IR=T https://www.businessinsider.com/hertz-slows-down-electric-pl... summarizes it as: > Hertz said the company found that repairing damage to an electric car can cost around twice as much as fixing similar issues on a comparable internal-combustion-engine vehicle. Routine maintenance, however, costs less, the company said. EVs don't need oil changes and are generally simpler to maintain than internal-combustion vehicles. I am also aware that is Tesla-specific, and may not apply to other EVs. However, it still does not mean that one can say something is an EV therefore it must be easier to maintain than an ICE, if only because the latter has spent a lot more money over the last century to reduce those costs.