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I heard someone said that, at the end EV will cost you almost the same as gasoline vehicle, if you have to change the expensive battery every so often. Can someone please give me more info on this? Thank you so much.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The main counter to that is that EVs are very difficult to repair on your own, so when something breaks, you're going to be taking it to a specialist shop. While you're right in saying that ICE components break, let's not act like electric motors are indestructible pieces of machinery

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

I have never in my life repaired a car on my own, so that means nothing to me.

Bought an electric car in early 2020. Costs me a few bucks a months to keep charged, tops. I have spent literally 0 dollars on maintenance for it. There are just plain fewer moving parts. It's a battery, an electric motor, and that's about it.

So that's 3.5 years (so far) of paying practically nothing to operate a smooth-driving, quiet vehicle that still gets almost 300 miles per charge and operates primarily off the wind power I buy from my utility company.

I expect to drive this one until it can't hold a charge anymore, and then I'll get another one.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is an EV harder to repair on your own than an ICE? I think you're wildly underestimating the shade tree tinkerers of the world.

Sure, an EV contains a bunch of proprietary software and configuration, but so do ICE vehicles, and people have been hacking that shit for decades. They'll swap out the whole ass controller if that's what it takes :)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They'll swap out the whole ass controller if that's what it takes :)

And we all know the ass controller is the most important part.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Only if you can control the whole ass, though. There nothing worse than a half-ass controller. . .

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

But there is sooo little to break on an EV. Mechanically, they are very simple machines. The only repairs we've payed for on our 2017 bolt has been a set of tires and wiper blades.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Home maintenance is the same (but far less needed). Major maintenance might be slightly more difficult in terms of the parts being heavier, but it's also less common to need to service an electric motor than a combination engine.