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byrsilvergun ( 571051 ) writes:
It's looking like electric cars or more expensive to maintain than gas cars. Even without including the battery since surprisingly it looks like the batteries will last it's the rest of the vehicle that's the problem.
Also there's one other major problem with electric cars we don't talk about, if you get in a fender bender it's not uncommon for the whole car to be totaled because the cost of recertifying the battery pack so that you know it's not going to blow up on you is more than the car is worth in a
bythegarbz ( 1787294 ) writes:
It's looking like electric cars or more expensive to maintain than gas cars.
Based on what, some anti-EV bullshit you pulled from your arse? The actual data shows the opposite. Consumer reports have largely confirmed that the vast majority of problems experienced by EVs are manufacturing defects which are usually resolved at no cost to the customer. There are the occasional really stupid car designs that give truly boneheadded problems (e.g. the Ford Mustang Mach-E can with minor damage to the undercarriage result in a repair bill in the many thousands due to loss of coolant in the
byrsilvergun ( 571051 ) writes:
You can easily find articles from reliable news sources talking about electric cars totaled in situations where a gas car would have just been repaired.
And consumer reports has covered the increased cost of electric cars versus gas cars. The fact is that it didn't turn out that the maintenance was less costly. Maybe that will be the case for some cars someday but right now it's not the case, electric cars cost more to maintain than gas powered cars
Don't get me wrong I don't have a dog in this fight.
byPowercntrl ( 458442 ) writes:
electric cars cost more to maintain than gas powered cars
EVs are extremely cheap to maintain if you manage not to crash them. Just sayin'.
I think we should do away with cars and switch to walkable cities and frankly we're going to do that whether you like it or not
Nah, we're heading towards a cars as a service future, where if you're not wealthy enough to own your own car, you'll summon a robotaxi using an app.
byBert64 ( 520050 ) writes:
EVs are extremely cheap to maintain if you manage not to crash them. Just sayin'.
You can be the best driver in the world, but that doesn't help if someone else causes a crash. I've had two cars that were hit while parked, one of which was written off.
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