valhalla360 wrote:
time2roll wrote:
People are going to love them. Could break the marginal dealers as the service revenue will taper off to about nothing.
More likely, the price of cars goes up as a result.
No dealers can make a go of it purely on new car sales. This isn't limited to "marginal" dealers.
Plus if you look at vehicle maintenance, actual major engine repair is pretty rare. Tire, Brakes, Suspension, Oil Changes are the bulk of the work. Other than possibly a brakes, those all will be present in EVs. Plus with EVs having a very heavy battery bank, suspensions will need to be beefed up and more expensive.
Oil changes will not be present on EV’s. We had our first EV for 5 years. We added washer fluid half a dozen times. Just before I sold it I put a new 12 volt battery in it because I knew it was coming due and I didn’t want the older couple to have any issues with it. If I remember correctly around 125 bucks. EV’s are drive and forget.
