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Re:Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack by pkaye on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @02:52PM (#17911735)
I expect the electric car dealers to charge more for the repair and maintenance work that remains.

Also I've seen gasoline engines get pretty reliable these days. The standard maintenance that my Toyota Camry needs for the first 120K miles is an oil/filter change, cabin filter change, tire rotation on a yearly basis. Maybe a brake pad change once in the 120K. But electric cars also need the cabin filter, tire rotation, maybe brake pads. So really it is just the oil/filter change that remain.

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Re:Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack by davidgould on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @04:42AM (#17916140)
An electric car in normal road use is unlikely to ever need brake pads ever unless you turn off regenerative braking.

When I upgraded the tires on my first Spark EV at 10000 miles and got a look at them I was amazed that the rotors still had the factory crosshatching on them and the inside of the wheels were clean instead of being filled with brake dust.

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