Dealers profit more from gas vehicle maintenance than from new-car sales or EV service.
Showroom staff may downplay EVs’ lower maintenance because it reduces dealership profits.
Consumer Reports analysis shows EV owners spend about half as much on maintenance and repairs over the life of the vehicle as gas-car owners
AAA’s Your Driving Costs numbers back it up. In 2023, they pegged average maintenance for new EVs at about 8.12 cents per mile, the lowest of any vehicle category they track
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne lab found the same pattern: battery-electric cars run about 40% cheaper per mile to maintain than gas cars.
Can confirm. 20k miles on my EV. I have replaced the cabin air filter and washer fluid. I should do my fluids sometime, but they’re taking way less beating than in an ICE. Brakes are hardly being used.
Brake fluid ages if you use them or not. It ages because it absorbs moisture out of the air.
Yep. It’s not quite due based age, and my other car tested fine for 4 years before I told them to just do it. The crud builds up, water sinks. Brakes should be cleaned/lubed periodically too.
Water gets absorbed by the fluid. To check for sure you have to measure the moisture content. Leave it long enough and algae starts to grow.
Thanks, I’m quite familiar.