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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of people who are confidently stating a lot of anti-EV “facts” and “math” that clearly don’t have a f’ing clue.[/quote]

Hybrids are probably the better solution for most people until charging infrastructure improves and EV production becomes less damaging for the environment.[/quote]

Or hybrids are worse than EVs because you have all the maintenance and repair costs of an ICE without the driving fun of an EV. [/quote]

How much are you spending on maintenance and repair?  Serious question because my ICE requires a perhaps $150-300 / year unless new brakes or tires are needed.[/quote]

An EV is zero routine maintenance and much less concern about something mechanical going wrong.

I mean yes, maybe it’s reasonable to get a hybrid if you take a couple long road trips a year bit maybe it’s also reasonable to consider that buying a hybrid is costing you hundreds of dollars in maintenance and fuel costs just to avoid an extra 20 mins at a rest stop on the way. Heck even if you rented for those trips you’d probably save money. [/quote]

EVs need routine maintenance.  Brakes, tires, alignment, etc.  It doesn’t seem that different to me.[/quote]

If you don’t think taking the entire internal combustion engine out of a car has no impact on maintenance and repair costs of the car then I don’t know what to say to you. [/quote]

What an EV does:
- eliminates cheap oil changes
- replaces that with a deteriorating enormous battery, costing $10k-20k to replace within the vehicle lifespan

What an improvement![/quote].

This is not a thing. Teslas are 10-12 years old now and there is no huge wave of battery replacements that is occurring.

And if you’ve never spent any money on engine repair or maintenance in 10-12 years then you’ve either lying or incredibly lucky and I can’t wait til your timing belt gives out.

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I have read stories of 10 year old Teslas that were scrapped rather than spend the $20k to replace the battery because the car was not worth that much anymore.  This is absolutely happening.

Any decent vehicle will not have a timing belt give out or require major repairs.[/quote]

Oh the “I read somewhere” anecdata— super believeable (esp when paired with the assertion that “no decent vehicle” will ever require timing belt replacement, which is obviously untrue).

Meanwhile here is Tesla reporting that at 200k miles their batteries have lost 12% of range.

https://electrek.co/2023/04/25/tesla-update-battery-degradation/[/quote]

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