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Old 01-04-2012, 12:39 AM   #36 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Ladogaboy View Post
Well, if you want to talk total ownership price between EVs (with battery packs that will eventually need replacing) and ICE vehicles, you also need to take into account the number maintenance items that are required for the ICE vehicle but not the EV.
A lot of EV's also use a single speed gear reduction instead of an automatic transmission and automatic transmissions tend to wear out well before the gas engine, last person I talked to who had an automatic transmission fixed paid over $3,000 to have it done on a car with about 70,000 miles.

But you still have tires, brakes, wiper blades, washer fluid, cabin air filter, brake fluid, and maybe every 100,000 miles suspension gets replaced?
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