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With most modern ICE cars everything but the transmission and the engine will fail before those two go out. Also: I don't think that's the usual case. Plenty of
by quibono 6mo ago
With most modern ICE cars everything but the transmission and the engine will fail before those two go out.
Also: I don't think that's the usual case. Plenty of sub 2k cars that will happily keep driving for years (I've had 3 such cars). ~700 mark is where you start seeing 300k mile "finish-them-off"-type cars.
- cogman10 6mo agoPlenty of EVs will drive for years as well (so long as they have a good thermal system for the battery). So I'm not sure what point is being made. Saying "It costs a lot of money to replace the battery" doesn't mean much as the battery, even if it has 70% of it's original capacity, is still perfectly functional. Very much the same as the engine which also costs a lot of money to replace.
- quibono 6mo agoI just thought the parent comment was unfair to ICE cars to make the EV proposition sound better. I'm a fan of EVs but they are still more expensive to buy. That said, very cheap ICE cars have a sweet spot where any damage to engine / transmission / clutch+flywheel often means replacing the entire car since the repair cost exceeds the market value of the car.
- g8oz 6mo agoI heard plenty of horror stories involving modern cars and their transmissions and engines.
- moepstar 6mo agoThat, for one - also: people constantly are overconfident in their ability to judge the status of really anything in a ICE car. Newsflash: you simply cannot "readout" the status of an engine, transmission, ... But you can/could/should for a battery. Now, someone hammer that into peoples brains...