Can confirm; >5 years on a Model 3 and other than tires $0 in maintenance so far. >3 years on a Model Y and other than tires, $0 in maintenance so far. Absolute huge cost and time savings compared to my ICE vehicles, even when I perform my own maintenance on them.
(I am aware of YourMechanic and other similar services, but having the unified experience with a brand is nice and fancy, I can order it in the Tesla app and the maintenance records can easily transfer to the next VIN owner)
Im surprised this isnt mentioned more, but dealers make a ton of money pressuring people who come in for maintenance to get a bunch of other stuff.
According to NADA in 202 49% of dealership profits came from the service and parts department, 36% from new vehicle sales, and 14% from used sales.
Service and parts averages 60-70% profit on the transactions.
People talk about "oh I don't want to spend 15 minutes charging at a supercharger on road trips". Yeah, I'd rather do that once in a blue moon rather than the weekly drive out of my way to spend 5-10 minutes at a gas station with semi-sketchy people loitering the area. Or deal with the ever-changing gas prices that go up every time a dictator in the middle-east sneezes.
I suspect insurance companies see the forced 20 minute break every five hours as a feature not a bug.
And quite frankly my 10-gallon tank has like a 400 mile range, and newer electric cars have like a 300 mile range, so the gap is getting pretty narrow.
However ... if you drive a Tesla, there are very few places in the United States where you would have to "worry about finding a charger along the way." Enter your destination in the nav, and it will pick a convenient Supercharger for you.
You're probably not planning on converting to a BEV anytime soon, but check out Tesla's trip planner on your monthly 350+ mile drive. I think you'll be surprised.
You go to a gas station, kid is there, he wants a snack or magazine. Multiplied by the number of kids.
Charge at home and kid gets nothing.
There is a simple answer to that.
"I can just say no when the kid is unreasonable"
"My kid is not gonna have an iPad"
"My kid is gonna do his homework"
"My kid is gonna be polite"
What do you suppose parents have already tried?
Or did you mean don't have kids?
On the other hand if you continually indulge them then you can only expect one outcome.
Once the average person knows the maintenance cost is that low it will probably provide yet another inflection in EV curve adoption.
Makes me think a tiny city open source hardware EV, with a pedagogical ecosystem, would be cool
Cost to go a mile varied between 1/5 and 1/10 of ICE, but had limited range (which worked for me).
>$0, so far
Come now, amortize what the eventual service costs will be...
I've been driving one since 2018, 80K miles. I've had to change tires probably 30-40% faster than ICE cars of a similar caliber (FWIW I also have become more careful on tires too). I've had exactly a cost of $1200 on it so far (not counting tires).
I think that's actually pretty decent. I think people also switch cars every 5-6 years too?
Maybe, but the average car is much older than 5-6 years https://bcarparts.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/INFO-AVERAG...
I wouldn't mind buying a 15+ years old ice. Buying a 15+ years old electric car seems like a complete gamble so far
If we play at being objective and get caught leaving bits out, people shut down and label you a liar.
I presume brakes and tires partially cancel out, depending on car model. Some vehicles do engine braking automatically (mine does).
Nonsense most EVs are very similar in weight to their ICE counterparts. My Model S weighs about 2 100 kg, a comparable sized ICE car such as an S-class Mercedes weighs slightly less to slightly more depending on which options you specify.
Tesla Model S has smaller interior than Camry.
Tesla Model S - 4,561 lb.
Toyota Camry - 3,340 lb.
https://www.edmunds.com/car-comparisons/?veh1=401921012&veh2...
Model S Long Range: 510lb heavier than a BMW 540i XDrive Model 3 Performance 379lb heavier than a BMW 330i XDrive Rivian R1S weighs over 7200lb. University of Leeds study (UK): electric cars are 312 kilograms (688 pounds) heavier on average than comparable vehicles powered by gasoline engines.
The figure may be taken from the Large Cars section of table 2 in this study (though the average weight difference given in the table is actually 433kg): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353150136_Comparati...
We didn't hear about tire wear as much on the Nissan leaf.
We've taken 5% of cars that had 7+ second 0-60 times and replaced them with 3 second 0-60 cars. And we've removed the most direct cost of that acceleration (fuel).