• bluGill@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Engines have been in mass development for 100 years or so. We have learned a lot about making them reliable. They have a lot of parts, but they rarely break. Most problems on modern ICE cars is not related to the engine or transmission (oil changes are not a problem) and so you end up with most breakdowns in an EV being things common to an ICE, plus the EV specifc stuff that we haven’t figured out yet.

    At least for the first 300k.miles or so. Then the ICE wears out.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Though, for the record an ev’a battery will last (at leas the last time I checked,) 100-200k miles

      Which they may be using to ding EVs, even if it’s known and not really a “reliability” issue