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Re:Apple Car: Bad Idea After All by dylan604 on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @12:02PM (#32997161)
>while a well-made electric car can run to a million miles over 50+ years. That's a very different build philosophy.

I'm trying to decide if this is something you actually think or is incredibly thick hyperbole. Why would you say a well-made electric car could run that many miles rather than the 200k+ mile cars that actually exist?

Re:Apple Car: Bad Idea After All by samatman on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @07:11PM (#33002317)
EVs are dramatically less complex than ICE cars, there's much less to break.

The transmission, for example, can't break, because there isn't one.

Getting the equivalent of a million miles in RPM out of electric motors is utterly routine.

They also wear brakes substantially less because of regeneration.

There are a lot of reasons to believe they'll last a lot longer than ICE cars.

Re:Apple Car: Bad Idea After All by olyjohn on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @12:16PM (#32997401)
Well made ICE vehicle could do that too. But the costs are not worth it for consumers. Big ass diesel semi trucks go over 1 million miles, then they are rebuilt and put back into service. Reliability doesn't just come because your car has an electric motor in it.
Re:Apple Car: Bad Idea After All by cronix on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @12:11PM (#32997297)
Because there are Tesla's that have gone over a million miles.
Re:Apple Car: Bad Idea After All by olyjohn on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @12:17PM (#32997414)
There's tons of ICE cars that have done it too.