Should’ve made efficient cheap EVs instead of copying Tesla and going for luxury high end EVs

Knowing that work trucks were more popular when they were available a decade or so ago.

And knowing that car manufacturers make more profit per truck when they have more add ons to charge extra for.

I would say I’m not in the minority and that the reason single cab work trucks with a full size bed are not available is because of greed.

I don’t want a dual cab. I want a single cab with a 8’ truck bed. Aka a work truck

Another EV truck with a bed too small to haul plywood/drywall… wtf it might as well not have a bed at all.

Rear end someone at 15mph and they would need the jaws of life to cut you out.

Ya I know

Control arms, rust, wiper blades? You’re trying to make EVs look bad by complaining about parts that are also on gas vehicles…

At this point it is so obvious you are shilling that everyone else in this thread can see it.

Coolant for EVs doesn’t need to be changed because they aren’t operating at the high temperature that combustion engines create burning fuel. It has nothing to do with Toyota or what they say. Differentials aren’t needed on EVs because each axle in an electric motor can turn independently.

Relatively low compared to what? Because we are comparing them to EVs which dont need any of the fluids, filtersseals, gaskets or belts that gas engines need or transmissions or differentials for that matter.

You’re comparing spending money on maintenance to not spending money on maintenance and saying the cost is low. Wtf?

I’m not saying Prius is unreliable because of my personal experience. I’m saying it because of all the common failures that it has documented on a site called Identifix, a site mechanics use to track pattern failures on vehicles.

All you did was post an article about a survey that reinforces what I said:

The only thing that goes bad on EVs is the battery because nothing else breaks.

That’s not the case on gas vehicles cause everything breaks on them. INCLUDING the battery.

Moving parts wear out due to friction. The electronic parts you listed are not moving parts and rarely fail. I would know, as an automotive technician they come to me when they break.

If you really were an engineer, you would know about minimizing points of failure. And you would be able to recognize gas vehicles have exponentially more points of failure due to the amount of moving parts and sealing surfaces and combustion temperatures.

It’s easy to claim you’re an engineer on the internet. But you’re definitely not talking like an engineer.

I already have. Here are the stats again:

Gas vehicles have complex combustion engines, transmissions, differentials, emission systems all of which require maintenance and can leak fluids that are expensive to fix. All of which are common points of failure. Everyone I know owns a car and all of their cars have had problems with one or more of these systems. These are all facts that are common knowledge and don’t need any supporting evidence.

EVs have 1 common point of failure. The battery. That’s because there isn’t anything else to break on them. They’re simple and durable.

It is physically impossible for an EV with much fewer parts, all of which require no maintenance, to be less reliable than a gas car with highly complex parts like transmissions and differentials and combustion engines.

I’ve worked on both for a living. I’ve seen first hand which cars come into the shop and how frequently. I used problem tracking websites like Identifix daily to see common failures on all the cars I work on.

EVs rarely break.

Gas vehicles turn into paperweights if you go too long without changing the oil.

Yes I know that. Because they are the only one that does. That’s why it’s called cherry picking.

You don’t have any stats. You have a link to a consumer reports article based off a survey…

Let me show you how flawed that is:

I’m going to hold a survey of my household to see how many people say you are wrong.

The results are in! 100% of the people surveyed said you’re wrong!

Of course it’s the battery. Nothing else breaks on an EV!

Similar to the rising rates of cancer these days because people are living longer and surviving everything else more due to medical science.

He’s been posting like this in multiple threads with one or two others. The way he’s pushing hybrids and talking up Prius makes it seems like a Toyota shill.

This is utter horseshit. Gas cars fail way more because they have way more parts and all of those parts require more maintenance.

I would know, I bought a house and put a kid through college with the money I made fixing gas cars and now I’m changing careers cause EVs are taking over and they rarely break.

The batteries degrade over time slowly, especially compared to gas engines. Just compare the warranties! Gas drivetrains get 3 year / 36k mile warranties. EV battery warranties are 8-10 years.

Check engine lights, oil leaks, coolant leaks transmission leaks, timing belts, timing chains, thermostats, water pumps, compression leaks, vacuum leaks, catalytic converters, oxygen sensors, ignition coils , spark plugs, spark plug wires, distributors, fuel pumps, fuel filters, fuel leaks, cracked block, thrown rod, warped crankshaft, scorn cam shaft, cam phasers, differentials, transmission problems and on… and on…

These are just SOME of the repairs that are common to ONLY gas vehicles and you won’t have any of these problems with an EV.

I get the range anxiety problem and I’m all for burning less fossil fuels, but the cost to own a hybrid is as much as an ICE and an EV combined. People are better off getting an EV with enough range to drive around town (which isn’t much) and using charging stations if they roadtrip. At least that’s the best choice cost wise.