Aptera is actually doing that now, they’re doing some really great stuff

Typically they last the lifetime of the car, so 20+ years.

On an EV you really don’t need to change any brake parts, there’s many people who’ve put on over half a million kilometers on their stock rotors and pads on EVs, they’re supposed to last the entire lifetime of the car without needing to replace them, so 20+ years. The only thing you really need to do is flush the brake fluid once over its lifetime.

Great!!!

“TheY cAn’t get them off thE dEaler lOts”

Here you go, by ADAC, could hardly get a more reliable source: https://www.notebookcheck.net/First-true-EV-reliability-report-shows-30-less-breakdowns-as-ADAC-pegs-low-voltage-batteries-a-weak-point.718821.0.html

Honestly I’d bet money that thing is going to be very reliable, Jaguar is very good with electrical systems, so having them toss out the engine and gearbox is going to do a lot of good for reliability. Seen models of these with over 400k miles on the clock.

I mean you literally just need an electrical outlet, that’s going to be everywhere. You can often just plug into lamp posts too.

Because there’s other EV manufacturers than Tesla? Even if they make good EVs there’s plenty of other good choices now too.

25% is the EV market share of Teslas in Sweden, where the commenter you replied to (and me) lives. Hardly Elon fanboys. Plenty of other good options.

From my experience it’s usually the opposite though, you never need to visit a gas station for your commute, because you always charge at home, and when you’re charging your car on a roadtrip you’re not standing outside for multiple minutes, you plug it in and go and stretch your legs or grab something to eat in the restaurant next-door or just take a nap in the car or watch YouTube for 15-20 minutes.

I’d be much more worried about filling up at a gas station, the typical place where people get robbed and assaulted, EV charging stations is not somewhere people up to no good hang out.

Have you asked your landlord for access to a parking spot with an electrical outlet? That’s a legal requirement for landlords to grant you in Norway, and is usually granted in Sweden with too with pending laws on the way.

10 years ago, sure. But these will hold up well over time.

EVs are fairly mature now, it isn’t what it was 10 years ago, these will continue to be very useable into the future.

A 6-year-old 2018 Tesla Model 3 is pretty much just as good of a car as a modern one so don’t really see your point there. Heck, even my 10-year-old Renault Zoe is great, if it had had a larger battery from the factory closer to what was offered on the base Model S it would’ve had very few limitations still.

Good joke

I think the 3500 lb tow-rating on my Polestar 2 is good enough. And my 10-year-old Renault Zoe is holding up very well on its original battery and motor.

Where is it so I can buy it? 😂

Honestly you can pretty easily tell how much an EV will depreciate just looking at it. The cheap functional ones like the Bolt and Model 3 hold their value really well.

As someone intimately familiar with battery technology, modern batteries will degrade at a rate about one half of that of what you see now on 10-year-old EVs (which hold ~80-85% of their max capacity). And cobalt-free LFP batteries barely degrade at all, they have projected lifetimes of 20-30+ years, and are in all standard-range Teslas among others.

And they continue to work even after they have degraded that much, they will go on to 70, 60%, often even 50% capacity before they start dying off. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Taycan still has a decent useable battery capacity in 20-25 years.