172k on a car with no suspension issues ever, you’re in the red zone for all those kind of failures, that’s just luck or very very careful driving/maintenance.
I would not bundle regular car issues with EV issues
Except for oil changes and transmission issues EV’s suffer from the same problems. And an HVAC failure can destroy a batterypack
The batteries, there’s just no way around it. Batteries are expensive as hell. You could make the pack standard and small enough to diy replace, but then you lose efficiency, safety, and have higher resistance. I was kind of hoping we could do some kind of flow battery where you’d pull up to a gas station and just swap out your electrolyte, but the power density is just awful.
172k on a car with no suspension issues ever, you’re in the red zone for all those kind of failures, that’s just luck or very very careful driving/maintenance.
Except for oil changes and transmission issues EV’s suffer from the same problems. And an HVAC failure can destroy a batterypack
The batteries, there’s just no way around it. Batteries are expensive as hell. You could make the pack standard and small enough to diy replace, but then you lose efficiency, safety, and have higher resistance. I was kind of hoping we could do some kind of flow battery where you’d pull up to a gas station and just swap out your electrolyte, but the power density is just awful.