How Cheap Can Electric Vehicles Get?

Re:How Cheap Can Electric Vehicles Get? by cowmix on Thursday April 28, 2016 @09:16AM (#11588536)

It is funny you should bring up brakes. On most hybrids and plugins brakes seem to last forever because regenerative braking is what is mostly used over using brake pads.

My Volt has 54K miles yet my brake pads look practically new.

Also, my Volt has only had its oil replaced once (because of how often the engine runs.) When I get my Tesla 3, I'll obviously never change my oil.

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Re:How Cheap Can Electric Vehicles Get? by umsm on Thursday April 28, 2016 @01:17PM (#11590432)

Tesla has a service schedule it suggests:

https://www.teslamotors.com/support/service-plans

You will change your battery oil.

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Re:How Cheap Can Electric Vehicles Get? by taneq on Thursday April 28, 2016 @06:48PM (#11592442)

What about headlight fluid? I don't see a schedule for that.

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Re:How Cheap Can Electric Vehicles Get? by mikeyouse on Thursday April 28, 2016 @12:58PM (#11590271)

> When I get my Tesla 3, I'll obviously never change my oil.

Or your transmission fluid, or your spark plugs, or your muffler / exhaust pipe, or your catalytic converters, or your oxygen sensors, or about 100 other parts unique to ICE engines.. Many of which I've recently repaired on my 160k-mile car.

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Re:How Cheap Can Electric Vehicles Get? by NeutronBoy on Friday April 29, 2016 @01:08AM (#11593861)

Many of those items aren't consumables, and you replace from wear and tear. Why wouldn't you think a temperature sensor in your Tesla battery will need to be replaced, similar to your O2 sensor in your ICE vehicle?

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