Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones.
furrowsofar@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Overbloan. Software does not age but security does. Other things that do not age well is specialty tech components. Batteries are a question too.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
A) Your car is not an EV. It’s a Hybrid.
B) All hybrid cars were/are bad investments.
You take a car, make it more complicated by adding an entire second power and drive system, and then expect it to not cost a fortune to maintain later?
Fucking stupidity.
noodles@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
All cars period are bad investments. That’s being said, I had a volt for about 3 years and I saved more in gas than I lost to depreciation and expensive maintenance. I bought it before there was an EV that could do my daily commute that wasn’t horrendously expensive; they were a good transition vehicle 10 years ago before batteries and charging speeds improved, though they’re definitely a huge PITA to maintain.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
If you’ve only had it three years, the expensive maintenance part hasn’t started yet, it’s probably still under warranty.
noodles@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Had a volt, I don’t even think they were selling them 3 years ago. I had a 2011 or 2012, one of the original models before the update, from from 2019-2022 or thereabouts. Had to replace the radiator, 12 volt battery, reset the traction battery, and replace the coolant system hoses. Again, huge PITA but got more than double the MPG of the 2001 sedan it replaced and held its value decently.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I have a hybrid that will be free in one year from fuel savings to date. Math is fun. Brakes last forever.
furrowsofar@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Not at all. A Volt is great. No major issues. Not sure why your loosing your shit over something you seem to know nothing about.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Prius is one of the most reliable cars on the road. Of course, Boomers loves to tell me the BATTERY WON’T LAST and IT WILL COST $50000 TO REPLACE. Fucking stupidity.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Almost as fucking stupid as not looking up the long term reliability on a Prius, or a Volt. There’s good reasons why city cab companies buy them.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Cabs don’t drive like you do. Neither based on distance driven, nor the constant stop and go driving that optimizes hybrid use case.
Full electric is better for a lot of taxi locations, which is why a lot of Cab companies are now starting to switch their fleets over.
Even Uber ditched it’s Uber Green branding for Uber Electric.
Every single Waymo on the road is fully electric at this point after they phased out their hybrid units a couple years ago.