Audi's unions demand electric model for main German plant

Re:Audi's unions demand electric model for main German plant by vvanders on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:11PM (#13988404)

There's a cooling system(at least in the EVs where you don't want fast battery degradation) so that is the only "large" maintenance item.

Even then it's only at ~45k and runs about $700.

Overall running costs for EVs are incredibly low. At 48k miles right now and my cost in tires($1k @ 30k mi) is actually my highest per-mile cost, even above electricity.

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Re:Audi's unions demand electric model for main German plant by zardo on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:25PM (#13988546)

Critically though, there is nothing like the head to block interface, which is a major source of cooling system issues on IC engines.

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Re:Audi's unions demand electric model for main German plant by vvanders on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:41PM (#13988725)

Yeah, it's less about design issues and more that you should do a coolant swap @ ~50k.

From what I've heard there's some people out there with ~150k and still on the original brake pads(!).

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Re:Audi's unions demand electric model for main German plant by aidos on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:22PM (#13988514)

Out of interest, which EV do you own?

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Re:Audi's unions demand electric model for main German plant by vvanders on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:40PM (#13988711)

Model S 85D

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