Huh? Charge it before that happens? Exactly like you’d get gas before you run out of it, only that you can do that at home and don’t need a gas station
I had my whole windshield crack after getting hit by a chunk of asphalt from a dump truck and I was able to get it replaced within 3 days. It's just a windshield. Brakes are similar, though the rotors may need some extra love on account of not getting used as much. They can still be done at a normal shop, though. For most other things shy of the battery or motors, they'll send someone out and do the repairs in your driveway.
Yeah, there are so many moving parts on an ICE that an EV just doesn’t need at all.
The village mechanic will still be able to do brakes and suspension work which are the most common types of issues unless you drive a particularly unreliable car.
Have you ever fixed an older combustion engine vehicle? You watch a youtube video and a few hours later, you can, in most cases, at least get the car to a state so you can drive it to a mechanic. On modern combustion engine vehicles this is still possible, although a bit more difficult.
Uhhh, EVs? No way you’re fixing anything in there.
I’ve been an Automotive Technician for a couple decades now and I can safely say combustion engines have way more parts that fail and if you can use a youtube video to diagnose your ICE (very rarely is this possible) then you’re smart enough to do the same with an EV.
There is way less parts on an EV and they are way easier to fix.
Most EV components you’d need to replace are the same as in an ICE. There’s way less that needs to be done on an EV. The expensive bit has an 8 year warranty on most EVs including Tesla.
On an EV, if anything happens to the motor or battery that they need work, you've done something so extraordinarily bad that you've somehow physically damaged them. Under normal use, they shouldn't need maintenance due to the much much less strain put on the motor without the constant explosions and multitude of fluids running through it. It's literally just a motor and a few electronics hooked up to a battery. There's nothing that special about it, and it's been proven to be a pretty reliable setup. Beyond that, they are a normal vehicle with normal replacement parts. Brakes, shocks, suspension bushings...all the same as every other vehicle out there.
What sucks is those components are wrapped together with silicon valley (wannabe) software that’s so rushed and poorly planned (except the monetization!) that minor sensor failures take down the whole system. At least it looks pretty.
A few decades of standards and convergence I hope will result in some extremely reliable cars and lots of aftermarket parts.
In an ICE you can have an air/fuel/electrical issue, and the entire system is designed to overcome the inherent design flaws of the technology, thus making it convoluted and difficult to understand. Not only can an EM be explained and taught far easier than a full ICE breakdown, but you can literally build one as an Elementary school science project with some copper wire, batteries, and magnets. The technology has only one point of failure as opposed to three. If it doesn’t work, electricity is the ONLY possible reason.
EM’s have a significantly smaller chance of failure due to the simplicity of the design with fewer moving parts, so while current EM’s aren’t really built to be repaired by their operators, one that’s designed to be would be incredibly simple for the layman to understand and repair had they the knowledge and tools available. The technology itself isn’t the issue, in fact, I’d argue the average random could learn how to repair an EM in much less time than an ICE, we just don’t build them that way currently (like how we don’t build modern ICE’s to be repaired by their drivers.)
That all sounds very impressive, rocket m00se. Until you get down to the tricky business of actually trying to identify and replaced a single failed cell in a massive factory-sealed battery array. It is NOT easy and there are many traps placed in your way on purpose. I would rather work on a broken ICE vehicle any day of the week.
It’s almost like I specifically mentioned that modern vehicles (no matter the powerplant) aren’t designed to be fixed by the person driving it, and are created so that special tools/technicians are needed.
I stand by my point, EM’s are far simpler and if they were designed like old cars with the owner in mind, they’d be dead simple for someone with next to zero knowledge to troubleshoot compared to the over engineered mess that internal combustion ended up as.
Ok. So do you think EV makers make it easy to repair them? Because they sure as hell don’t. On paper you can, I agree with that. But they lock the software and hardware in bizzare ways, so that you have to go to a certified mechanic.
Which is exactly what modern cars are like to fix, what’s your point? I specifically mentioned how we don’t design them to be repaired by the owner in my comment.
Jesus, people really don't read on this website. Neither of these responses seemed to have noticed that you specifically covered their respective points in your comment.
Yeah buddy of mine mended his lease car with duct tape. He rear-ended someone at a roundabout at 30 km/h. Couldn’t get it fixed quickly, had to wait 3 months for the garage.
I mean I like bashing on Tesla as much as the next guy, but any car can end up like this regardless of price. They probably bumped into something that broke the locking mechanism and this is probably just a temporary solution until they get it replaced.
Despite the insistence of a couple generations of shadetree mechanics and even its own manufacturers, the proper nomenclature for the material in question is “duck” tape, not “duct” tape. It was never intended for, and performs very poorly at the task of sealing ducts.
“Duck” is the name of a type of densely woven cotton cloth, treated with wax. The waterproof nature of this cloth is where the name comes from, as duck feathers famously repel water.
The original duck tape was made by applying a pressure sensitive adhesive to strips of duck cloth. Modern variants still use a fabric matrix for strength, but have added a layer of plastic to provide water resistance.
That said, reading the Wikipedia article, there very much were tapes made for repairing ducts.
It was commonly used in construction to wrap air ducts.[20] Following this application, the name “duct tape” came into use in the 1950s, along with tape products that were colored silvery gray like tin ductwork. Specialized heat- and cold-resistant tapes were developed for heating and air-conditioning ducts. By 1960 a St. Louis, Missouri, HVAC company, Albert Arno, Inc., trademarked the name “Ductape” for their “flame-resistant” duct tape, capable of holding together at 350–400 °F (177–204 °C).[21]
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