Wow. Why am I not even remotely surprised.

Also, the dude has the SEO of a GOD. Check this shit out...and the first page or two are all about him and David Epstein

Buddy, can your VW transmit 4k video and run multiple non-functioning copies of Outlook? Huh?

Mysterious burning smells, gas leaks, and aiming a souped up laser pointer out the window ain't enough, pal.

Call when that VW can keep Congress happy by blowing $93BN recycling 1960's rocket technology.

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Wait until you hear about this guy named Malcom whose writing oddly often had pragmatic alignment with corporate/pro-business agendas, mostly big tobacco but oil and pharma too

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and municipal employees who have very strong worker's unions! and workers who are, uh, fanatically for workers rights! Er....their own, very exclusively....

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Ford parts website (www.ford.com/cl/parts) showing some of the coolant hoses, oil and water pumps, heat exchangers ('coolers'), and sensors for coolant & oil, in your MachE.

Particularly funny you claim there's no coolant, because the MachE is infamous for insufficient cooling, limiting performance

As battery energy density continues to improve, something like this maybe becomes a little more possible with EV tech due to simplicity and powertrain component packaging flexibility. But body material cost, weight, and aero? Hoooboy.

Auto industry can do incredible stuff in terms of crash safety. Challenges go way beyond safety. Mostly cost b/c likely a unique platform vehicle. Carmakers heavily use shared platforms for a reason. Also Singer & Icon can do what they do because they don’t have to meet a fraction of the standards.

No major manufacturer has an oil change interval less than 7.5k, many have gone to 10k…and even 20 years ago for expensive high performance cars running synthetic for 5k was considered fine by most.

It’s pretty irrelevant compared to the hundreds of gallons of gas used between oil changes.

The only real “conspiracy“ here is the shift to lighter and lighter weight oils to improve mileage, which has required tighter tolerances and made engines wear faster and suffer damage more easily.

The interval grew partially due to oils improving in quality and better engine design, but also car ratings groups like consumer reports started rating cars on scheduled maintenance costs, and it also made it cheaper for manufacturers or dealers to offer free service under warranty.

Nearly all manufacturers specify an oil change interval of 7.5k-10k, sometimes the 10k recommendation is conditional upon using hydrocracked or full synthetic. Ford, GM, Audi, BMW, VW, Mercedes - all have a 7.5-10k or 10k intervals specified.

Which EV do you have?

Yes, EVs have oil. Yes, EVs need regular servicing, though much less involved & mostly inspection.

Lastly for both ICE and EV owners: there has never been and never will be, a “lifetime of the car” fluid.

Automakers have a very specific definition of “lifetime.” Guarantee it doesn’t match yours.

If your EV has a reduction gearbox (nearly all do), it has oil. Many manufacturers also use oil for cooling the motor.

It is “lifetime” fluid, but automakers have a very specific definition of “lifetime” that doesn’t match the general public’s idea of what “lifetime” means.

It depends on the square footage, not “number of panels” and bifacials are not going to make up you being off by 2-3x.

Making up numbers and/or cherry picking doesn’t help the cause.

Only Tesla has issues with suspensions, namely the wheels falling off. One of many Tesla-only issues.

Brake rusting-up issues can be prevented in wetter climates by once a week(ish) stopping the car while it is in “neutral” which disables regen.

Also, Hyundai/Kia have had huge issues with ICCU failures, the cars eat 12v batteries, and to much lesser degree active shutter and water pump issues. Still great cars, best EVs around just about, and killing it in the US market. My only complaint would be the odd wiggle over bumps the Limiteds do.

Hyundai calls for a flush of low conductivity coolant loop every 30k. It is largely considered to be Hyundai giving dealers a ‘gimme.’ Some dealers now just check it, but not bringing it in could be used to deny warranty claims.

Not all markets have this requirement. Yours may be one of them.

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Lastly, go google “Tesla wheel fell off” and check out all the images of “reliable” Teslas with only three wheels attached.

Tesla, selling only electric cars, which are usually more reliable, is slightly better than Ford, for whom EVs comprise about 1-2% of sales.

Go look at Hyundai’s thermal system and compare to Tesla’s. Then guess which one tends to fail after as little as 40k and costs $2k to repair oow.

Until recently consumer reports rated Tesla second-worst in the entire mainstream industry for new car reliability and they’re currently the worst for used car reliability. Being worse at reliability than RAM and Jeep is a stunningly impressive accomplishment.

Calling Tesla drive units “sealed” is a stretch when Tesla wouldn’t cover “intense rain” damage. Lifetime of a Tesla drive unit is questionable given reduction gearbox had a habit of grenading at ~30k miles.
Also, automakers define “lifetime” as “lasts until we expects that system to need repair”

For fellow bike advocates: yes, EVs do not solve congestion, parking space land wastage, the financial drain of car ownership, the immense cost to society and tragedy of roadway injuries and deaths, and passenger cars are the most energy intensive way to move a person.

For the “I have solar on my roof so it’s free” crowd - unless you can’t sell back into the grid, no, that electricity isn’t free.

Yes, I am aware maintenance on average is lower. There are many levers and dials that can affect the estimate. My point is to encourage people to actually work it up on a spreadsheet and loan calculator. If your electricity is 17c per kWhr, you probably are evening out roughly at 30k miles/year.

Yes I’m aware if I looked nationally I could buy a $7-8k Nissan leaf with high miles, a high miles Tesla for 10k, etc. 15k seemed like a good “what one could find regionally without too much trouble and probably not beat to hell or a salvage title” figure.

For the record, you need to drive a fair number of miles before buying an EV makes financial sense provided your current car is paid off. The numbers get better if you buy used and if you have cheap electric. For example a $15k EV w/loan would only save me money on fuel if I drove 55k miles/year.

The number of people screeching “telling people to just buy an EV is privileged!!!!” in my discover feed FAR outnumber the “poor people should just buy an EV” (0) or even “buying an EV will save you money!”(1-2)

All of the former have replies disabled and whined about people engaging them.