• dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    And modern ICE cars have all those same diodes. It isn’t like you trade 2000 moving parts in an ICE vs 20 in an EV for 20 electronic parts in an ICE vs 2000 in an EV. The EVs have some extra battery conditioning electronics that ICEs don’t have and some regen braking stuff, but they also don’t have ignition timing, transmission controllers, etc. I’d venture that all washes out.

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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.

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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