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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
We are talking about <b>regular</b> maintenance.
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Who are you calling "we" here? I think everyone but you is talking about ALL maintenance, and I think it's a little dishonest to talk about maintenance as though it only involves the power train.
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An EV drivetrain has about 15 moving parts, with very little wear and tear, and no vibration, and almost no waste heat. By definition, it will have less long term problems.
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Not necessarily. If you want to be technical, an EV power train has billions and billions of moving parts: they're just moving at atomic scale. Which is why, as I said above, the biggest long-term maintenance issue with my Insight involves the battery, and that didn't show up until the car had been driven for about 8 years.
The thing about the maintenance issues with IC engines is that almost all of them are trivial to take care of. Even a total engine rebuild is not out of reach of the average mechanically-inclined person. With an EV, it seems as though any battery problems require trips to the dealer for a complete replacement, and that's not going to be covered under warranty forever, you know.
Seems IC versus EV maintenance is rather like the difference between working on a standard PC and an iPhone. Almost anyone can replace or upgrade parts in a standard desktop/tower machine, or even build one from parts. Even notebooks aren't impossible to work on. But try working on an iPhone, or indeed, an i-Anything :-(