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Until the engine blows or the transmission fails. Both are actually quite common on older ICE cars. At least as common as the need to replace an entire battery
by brewdad 3y ago
Until the engine blows or the transmission fails. Both are actually quite common on older ICE cars. At least as common as the need to replace an entire battery pack on an EV.
- EricE 3y agolol - I bought a Mazda Miata with 180K on the clock, owned it for four years, put another 60k on the clock and sold it for $200 more than I bought it for. The notion that engine and transmission failures are quite common is beyond ludicrous. Sure, you get some idiots that don't perform basic maintenance but I have a '97 Miata, 2002 Xterra and 2010 RX350 and will likely be buried with all three still working perfectly fine. They have all been paid off for over a decade and insurance for all three is cheaper than any new car, especially an electric (have you checked insurance rates on them now, if you can even get a policy?). I do love people that buy new cars every 2 to 4 years - generate lots of cheap used cars for me to pick from!
- idiotsecant 3y agoEven if that does happen I can go pluck a replacement from a sctrap yard and have installed for a fraction of a fraction of the cost of a new battery. I am practically an EV evangelical when it comes to cool cars for people with plenty of money, but we have to recognize that the tech just isn't there to make it practical for the vast majority. Not yet.