Comment on Our Chevy Blazer EV Has 23 Problems After Only 2 Months
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months agoAside 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.
flames5123@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You have less moving parts so there’s also no replacing fuses, coolant, belts, etc.
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.
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.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Yes. Once the price goes down, the reliability goes up, replacement batteries are cheaper, and all homes and apartments and charge stations are put in place, it will be good for most people. Right now, most people will need a 2nd non plugin vehicle to have. Most ev owners don’t JUST own an EV.
Yeah. Your work probably has what? A dozen spots where you can charge an EV? You think it could handle 200? Do you know how much that would cost to handle 200 spots all plugged in to charge, even at level 1 charging? It’s a lot.