Have you ever fixed an older combustion engine vehicle? You watch a youtube video and a few hours later, you can, in most cases, at least get the car to a state so you can drive it to a mechanic. On modern combustion engine vehicles this is still possible, although a bit more difficult.
Uhhh, EVs? No way you’re fixing anything in there.
On an EV, if anything happens to the motor or battery that they need work, you’ve done something so extraordinarily bad that you’ve somehow physically damaged them. Under normal use, they shouldn’t need maintenance due to the much much less strain put on the motor without the constant explosions and multitude of fluids running through it. It’s literally just a motor and a few electronics hooked up to a battery. There’s nothing that special about it, and it’s been proven to be a pretty reliable setup. Beyond that, they are a normal vehicle with normal replacement parts. Brakes, shocks, suspension bushings…all the same as every other vehicle out there.
What sucks is those components are wrapped together with silicon valley (wannabe) software that’s so rushed and poorly planned (except the monetization!) that minor sensor failures take down the whole system. At least it looks pretty.
A few decades of standards and convergence I hope will result in some extremely reliable cars and lots of aftermarket parts.
I’m hiking across Ontario. It will never stop baffling me seeing the most rural houses imaginable, middle of nowhere. What’s in the driveway? Tesla.
What you gonna do if it breaks down!? Walk!?
Edit: I’m learning a lot about cars in this thread :D Thanks for the feedback all!
I mean what do you do if your Jeep or Toyota breaks down!? Walk!?
Have you ever fixed an older combustion engine vehicle? You watch a youtube video and a few hours later, you can, in most cases, at least get the car to a state so you can drive it to a mechanic. On modern combustion engine vehicles this is still possible, although a bit more difficult.
Uhhh, EVs? No way you’re fixing anything in there.
On an EV, if anything happens to the motor or battery that they need work, you’ve done something so extraordinarily bad that you’ve somehow physically damaged them. Under normal use, they shouldn’t need maintenance due to the much much less strain put on the motor without the constant explosions and multitude of fluids running through it. It’s literally just a motor and a few electronics hooked up to a battery. There’s nothing that special about it, and it’s been proven to be a pretty reliable setup. Beyond that, they are a normal vehicle with normal replacement parts. Brakes, shocks, suspension bushings…all the same as every other vehicle out there.
You’re worried about literally nothing…
What sucks is those components are wrapped together with silicon valley (wannabe) software that’s so rushed and poorly planned (except the monetization!) that minor sensor failures take down the whole system. At least it looks pretty.
A few decades of standards and convergence I hope will result in some extremely reliable cars and lots of aftermarket parts.