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About electric vehicle. If you add the maintenance cost for battery, how does it fair compare to gasoline vehicle? On cost we have to pay. (lemmy.world)

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I heard someone said that, at the end EV will cost you almost the same as gasoline vehicle, if you have to change the expensive battery every so often. Can someone please give me more info on this? Thank you so much.

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[-] shasta@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

My last vehicle, a Buick, had the engine crap out around 4 years. Something happened with one of the cylinders, can't remember what. I had to get it towed to a shop and it cost $2k for them to rebuild the engine. I know a major repair like that early into the life of the vehicle is uncommon, but these sorts of things do happen and you just gamble on it every time you buy a vehicle.

[-] LucyLastic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

And the warranty didn't cover it?!

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Nope

[-] LucyLastic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Wow. Like, I can buy a cheap Chinese motorcycle and it'll come with 3 years warranty, yet Buick can't manage 4

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's because they're not telling you the whole story. A bad engine not covered by warranty? That means they probably ran it out of oil or something.

[-] LucyLastic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Quite possibly, along with another commenter who said ICE cars start to give problems at 70,000 miles.

Literally yesterday I was joking that my British friend's 2005 Seat Leon is just about broken in since it passed 250,000 miles. Still runs like clockwork apparently.

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

ICE cars probably DO give them trouble, because they're the kind of person who refuses to take care of it.

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