Federico Mena Quintero
federicomena@mstdn.mx
People with electric cars, what's the maintenance dynamic like? I assume "standard" things like brake pads can be changed by any random mechanic, but how about the rest?
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Cassidy James 
cassidy@blaede.family
@federicomena that's the neat thing: there is very little maintenance! I think all we've had done in two years of owning a ~10-year-old Nissan Leaf is someone looked at the brakes (they were fine, because it mostly uses regenerative braking) and we got new tires. There is no oil, or gears, or transmission, or even power steering fluid. It's a big gadget and just kinda works.
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@federicomena For EV-specific repairs, there are only a few independent service people around. We just lost one from Portland (they moved).
Once mine goes out of warranty, I'm probably going to end up paying the manufacturer's shop prices for maintenance. So far (two years in), that's been much cheaper than ICE.
I don't have any data on whether repairs are more or less common; I've had zero major mechanical failures in any car I've bought over the last forty years.
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Jonathan Corbet
corbetThe maintenance story is one of the great things about EV that folks don't yet appreciate.
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