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>costs less for the maintenance and repairs that are required What are you basing this on? What does it cost to repair an electric motor? I also think you ove

>costs less for the maintenance and repairs that are required What are you basing this on? What does it cost to repair an electric motor? I also think you overestimate the maintenance costs of ICE cars. I've owned nothing but new vehciles (relatively cheap ones) for the past 10 years. Outside of oil changes, which the Tesla doesn't need, I paid very little for routine maintenance. I had one kind of "major" problem, warranty covered. For one vehicle, my oil changes were paid for. So much speculation, but it seems to me that people around these parts think all ICE vehicle are "junk", or close, when in reality they're incredibly efficient, reliable and pretty cheap to operate.

marcosdumay 13y ago
> What does it cost to repair an electric motor? Unless you somehow destroyed the wiring, very little. And the only kind of required maintenance is changing bearings (should last a decade, or two) or brushes (some motors don't have them, the ones that have require changing every few years, and they are quite cheap). Any other kind of repair is done only after some kind of abuse. An electric motor also has no cooling, no transmission, simple lubrication, no starter engine, in short, nothing that breaks. But it has a huge battery...