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Re:Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegoti... by justapassenger on Thursday June 02, 2022 @10:37PM (#31603592)
> dealership interests aren’t aligned with EV manufacturers. There’s very little service revenue

Citation needed. Both my EVs and ICEs needed similar amount of service. Breakage of drive trains are super rare nowadays (expect for over engineered performance stuff and just broken designs), same as breakages of batteries (cough, Bolt, cough).

All stuff my cars needed a service for in last 20 years were comfort features, gizmos, internal materials, electrical goblins, etc. Both ICEs and EVs.

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Re:Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegoti... by miohtama on Friday June 03, 2022 @06:02AM (#31606349)
These are very high quality sources, thank you.

The best citation on this site.

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Re:Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegoti... by VirusNewbie on Thursday June 02, 2022 @10:40PM (#31603612)
Your ICE doesn't need oil changes, transmission fluid, a timing belt, spark plugs, or any of that?
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Re:Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegoti... by justapassenger on Thursday June 02, 2022 @10:51PM (#31603697)
Oil change is maintenance not service. But ok, let’s include that. It’s done at the same time as rotating tires, so it only adds few extra bucks of revenue for dealers (yes, you can rotate yourself/at other places, same as you can do oil change).

Transmission fluid for modern cars lasts about 100k miles. So you’ll do it maybe once, unlikely at your dealer as you won’t pay dealer tax for an old beater.

Exactly the same for timing belt and spark plugs.

Drive trains aren’t money makers for dealers for a long time.

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Re:Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegoti... by thaeli on Thursday June 02, 2022 @11:27PM (#31603930)
Timing belt is the only expensive thing on that list (because of labor) and very few American market vehicles use timing belts anymore. The market has gone almost entirely to timing chains these days.
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Re:Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegoti... by bombcar on Friday June 03, 2022 @01:05AM (#31604498)
We’re back to timing chains? I remember we used to have them back in the old days.
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