• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    Oh no. Not the little cheap repairs.

    I do repairs myself. But engine coolant is like every 7 years and costs $40. Brakes are $50 every 5+ years. Fun fact, you’re supposed to replace the coolant and may have to replace the coolant pump on EVs as well. They run liquid cooling for the battery and the inverter.

    An alternator is typically sub $200 and takes like an hour to replace.

    You skipped the most frequent thing. Oil changes.

    None of that little stuff at all ads up to the ruining of value cost of a $15,000 battery going bad. I’ve been driving older vehicles for nearly 30 years. I know the costs pretty damned well. Most EVs are still more of a cost sink for regular people than a small ice vehicle that gets 35+ mpg. Tire changes are less frequent and cheaper. The upfront cost of an EV is more, the resell value is a bigger loss, and you’re not saving that much in fuel unless you can charge your ev for free. It’s getting pretty close to the tipping point, and it will get there, but it hasn’t yet. Not unless you’re in a country that gives you access to low cost Chinese made EVs.

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      2 days ago

      None of that little stuff at all ads up to the ruining of value cost of a $15,000 battery going bad.

      lol keep moving the goalposts. your ice vehicle is gonna require way more repairs over it’s lifetime, chump.

      oh did you forget the point of it all? tho the costs are fucking cheap for each little component, your ice bullshit is going to destroy the ecosystem. goddamn every two minutes you petrol heads have to be reminded that your fucking fetish is killing us all.

      GODDAMNIT WHY CAN’T EVERYTHING BE CHEAP LIKE THIS MASS PRODUCED PRODUCT THAT’S BEEN MADE IN THE BILLIONS FOR OVER A HUNDRED YEARS? WHAAAA

      you fucking babies are going to kill us all

      meanwhile, you know how much I spend to drive an EV 45 miles each way to work? $44, PER MONTH, and it’s charged on solar and (if for some reason there’s no sun for ages) hydro.

      good luck getting that out of an ice car while you choke on the exhaust.

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        2 days ago

        I’ve literally have over 20 year old vehicles and it literally has not cost me that much at all for any of them. Not even close. You aren’t spending $15k on an ice vehicle unless your engine and transmission both need replaced and you’re paying someone else to do it.

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            2 days ago

            Lol. Go research where emissions contributing to global warming are coming from. This is like the plastic recycling push in the 80s. The government and big corporations are making it sound like it’s your fault there’s a problem and you could fix it. But that’s total bullshit. They’re the ones causing the majority of the problem, but they’re blaming you for it instead. passenger cars are just a small portion of heat causing pollution.

            Ironically enough, making electricity is doing more to polute the earth than ice vehicles. Big corpo keeps burning coal and oil and natural gas to make electricity and the government hasn’t done shit about it because $$$.

            You want to save the planet, quit worrying about cars and start doing something about actual large scale pollution. Every single passenger vehicle on the planet could switch to electric this year and it’s not going help save the planet.

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              oh ok cars don’t pollute bwahahaha you fuckin dolt

              WE HAVE SOLAR AND HYDRO, it’s not polluting more than your ice vehicle and if you believe so go buy stock in shell and exxon, you’re already deep throating their propaganda, you fuckin dolt.

              goddamn you really believe you have no impact, how fucking dumb

              gonna block you petrol shill, you’re in the wrong fucking sub