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Originally Posted by wireframe
Electric cars should (SHOULD) be much more reliable than combustion cars. There are fewer parts and the systems are less dependent on each other. The obvious exception is the battery, which would need to be replaced periodically. I think that longevity is actually the most important environmental benefit of electric cars.
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I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on Electric motors and how they operate, but anecdotally, in my experience the benefit of ICEs is that component complexity....in that, you can generally fix it fairly simply as only one component typically fails at any given time unless the damage is catastrophic.
Whereas with an electric motor it either works perfectly well...or not at all.
No middle ground.
So instead of perhaps a few bucks here and there for some engine repair, its a lot of bucks for a complete replacement.
Its great that we want to electrify the world or whatever, but I think we also need to acknowledge that not everyone is going to be able to afford these things.