Electric vehicle charging cost

valhalla360 wrote:

drsteve wrote:

The article is misleading in that there is no mention whatsoever of the significant routine maintenance advantage enjoyed by electric cars. The author points to battery depreciation as being the big cost difference while ignoring that many conventional vehicles incur major engine or transmission repair costs within the ten year battery life span.

Hard to believe a guy who presents himself as a financial analyst specializing in the auto industry, i.e. an expert, would miss something like that.

I hear a lot of people talk about that but engine related maintenance and repairs...$20 oil change once or twice a year....and nothing else...suspensions, tires etc...those need repair and replacement regardless. If the EV has regenerative braking you might save a set of brake pads every 2-3 years.

This is fairly typical with modern ICE cars and is supported by the fact that I've yet to see an article that breaks down the costs on a statistically valid basis..it's all just generalizations like your comment.

Oil changes--where does one get a $20 oil change?--filters, brakes, random electrical sensor failures... fuel pumps, injectors, O2 sensors... ICE vehicles have very complex control systems that fail on a regular basis. I see a lot of "reasonably new" vehicles in repair shops. And again, if this guy is going to ding EVs for battery replacement ten years down the road and call it a deal breaker, while ignoring the many routine and not so routine costs of ICE vehicles and their enormously complex drivetrains, I'm going to call BS on it. He's not even close to impartial. He has an admitted interest in seeing Tesla stock fall.