Maintenance Free Cars?

[topher5150]

Any thing with moving parts will require maintenance

[Drover]

Originally Posted by jtur88

A car still requires maintenance, even if the motor doesn't. Does the electric car have brakes, tires, wipers, bulbs, AC, belts, steering linkage, power locks and windows, body hardware that can rust? I have a full-electric washing machine, stove, computer. They are far from maintenance-free.

Every car I've ever had that had reached the end of its useful life, the engine was still running perfectly.

I didn't say "an all-electric car will be maintenance-free." What I said is "[t]he closest you'll come to a maintenance-free car is a full-electric." There's a difference.

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by Drover

I didn't say "an all-electric car will be maintenance-free." What I said is "[t]he closest you'll come to a maintenance-free car is a full-electric." There's a difference.

Fair point.

Nevertheless, if your all-electric car lasts long enough, the power plant or energy processor will still eventually wear out, and "maintenance" will involve bolting in a new one. So maintenance will shift from 'a few parts at intervals' to 'the whole thing all at once', but it's still maintenance.