Comment on Our Chevy Blazer EV Has 23 Problems After Only 2 Months

• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Aside from oil changes, there isn’t often very much maintenance that’s different on an ice. Just stuff that’s every fifty or one hundred thousand miles.

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  • flames5123@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You have less moving parts so there’s also no replacing fuses, coolant, belts, etc.

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There is coolant. There are fuses. You don’t have a belt but you have electric motors like the AC pump. You’ve added heating coils for a heater. You may have more than one electric drive motor, an inverter system, and a whole mess of sensors.

      Charging at home works if you don’t live in apartments or condos or trailer houses, which is a quite sizeable amount of people. Some of those people could, in theory run out a extension cord and charge from 110, but that is only good for Like 36 miles from 8 hours of charging.

      Not having an ice does not mean there isn’t a lot that goes wrong with an electric car. You just aren’t changing the oil every six to ten thousand miles.

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      • flames5123@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        True. But the coolant is for the battery, not for a combustion engine that is constantly hot, so it’s hardly ever changed. I use 120v at my apartment to charge. It gets me about 5 miles per hour. Because I live in a city, I’m not driving all the time, it works for me. I see people using extension cord across the sidewalk on my way to work. Our city, Seattle, is building charging infrastructure. Most work garages have chargers, so it’s still charging at work.

        There are still less moving parts than an ICE though, meaning there is less to go wrong. An electric motor isn’t running from friction like many parts of an ICE.

        An EV isn’t for everyone, but it will work for most people once the price comes down.

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