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Your electric car will fall apart before its battery pack does, study finds(electrek.co)

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reddig33@lemmy.world
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Far less moving parts though. No oil changes. Simpler “transmission”. Regenerative breaking means it takes forever for you to need to replace brake pads. Etc etc.

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mommykink@lemmy.world
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Less moving parts means an entire drivetrain replacement when something inevitably goes wrong and maintenence =/= repairs

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Grass@sh.itjust.works
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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.

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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.

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