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Your electric car will fall apart before its battery pack does, study finds (electrek.co)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Less moving parts means an entire drivetrain replacement when something inevitably goes wrong and maintenence =/= repairs

[–] Grass 7 points 1 month ago

Not necessarily, in theory anyway, but we all know big auto likes full replacements of everything so effectively yes, absolutely. It doesnt matter what powers the car though. The [undisclosed purpose sensor #7] fails and suddenly you have to replace the car computer which is encased in opaque resin for some reason and not even servicable by the engineer that designed it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If I recall, teslas are built like shit so they have to be replaced entirely. the last statistic I saw was electric cars have 2/3 the maintenance costs of gas cars and will last as long as their frame does.