(12-04-2019, 05:53 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(12-04-2019, 08:45 AM)SeldomRite Wrote: Why do you think a normal mechanic couldn't fix it? Maybe not the electric motor or battery, the former being unlikely to need work at all and the latter being warrantied for a very long time. The rest of the stuff like brakes and suspension are probably using "normal" parts.

Of course the best part about EV is it needs less maintenance overall.

How do you figure less maintenance?  About the only thing I can think of is no motor oil change.

What makes you think that an electric motor is unlikely to need work or maintenance done?  Ever hear of brushes or a stator?  Even if batteries are warrantied, what do you do to dispose of them? (lithium, not a conventional battery).

I'll stick with my gas-using F-150 and my diesel-using F-250.

(12-04-2019, 06:46 PM)DragonFury Wrote:

(12-04-2019, 05:53 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: How do you figure less maintenance?  About the only thing I can think of is no motor oil change.

What makes you think that an electric motor is unlikely to need work or maintenance done?  Ever hear of brushes or a stator?  Even if batteries are warrantied, what do you do to dispose of them? (lithium, not a conventional battery).

I'll stick with my gas-using F-150 and my diesel-using F-250.

The entire drive train for one. Clutch, transmission, drive shaft, differential, half shafts, bearings to hold it all. None of these are present on an EV. And that's not going into all the components an ICE has like con rods (and their own bearings), piston rings, crankshaft, camshaft(s), valves and valve springs, timing gears and chains. I can keep going here. 

Sure there's wiring going from the batteries to the motors, but that is largely static as opposed to all the components I just mentioned which are constantly moving, rotating, and rubbing against each other.

You're talking about major repair things there for the most part, and they are reality,the but ICE vehicles also need a lot of scheduled things over time, too.

Things like sparkplugs, wires, hoses, filters, belts, and fluids, and those are just the normal consumables you're expected to change multiple times over the first ten or so years. There are also sensors that commonly go bad, water pump that needs to be changed with the timing belt, a clutch if you drive a manual transmission car, and other various and sundry parts that aren't considered consumable but aren't uncommon to fail in a hundred thousand+ miles of driving. ICE engines are an accolade to modern engineering, but EVs are superior in every way. I expect someone will come along and dispute that by claiming to need to drive hundreds of miles pulling a boat every day, but even if such a need really exists, it says nothing about the superiority of the tech from all normal use case standpoints.

In an electric car you still have things like brakes to change if you drive poorly, truck a lot less often if you drive well, and maybe coolants eventually, but the amount of regular maintenance for an electric car is much lower than for an ICE vehicle.

I expect a lot of people will want to keep wasting thousands of dollars a year on ICE trucks for a while, but they'll all eventually either switch or die off.

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