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Article says that the reason was huge mainly costs which I don’t understand. I thought EVs should have fundamentally much lower maintenance costs given dramatically reduced moving parts. Teslas need far less often oil changes and other services. Also, Tesla should theoretically lasts for million miles while gas vehicles rarely go beyond 2k. So, average TOC per mile should be very small for EVs. Where does math go wrong?


Economies of scale abd pre existing spare part warehousing | JIT production.

IIRC correctly this was mainly Tesla EV's (?) which hard a high cost of replacement parts | long waiting times.

Some of the other EV models are better situated re: spares and legacy gas vehicles have decades of replacement part infrastructure already in place.

> Also, Tesla should theoretically lasts for million miles while gas vehicles rarely go beyond 2k.

Here in Australia all our family cars since the 1980s have had at least 600,000 km on the clock before being sold on (a couple hit one million km).




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