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>while a well-made electric car can run to a million miles over 50+ years. That's a very different build philosophy.

I'm trying to decide if this is something you actually think or is incredibly thick hyperbole. Why would you say a well-made electric car could run that many miles rather than the 200k+ mile cars that actually exist?



EVs are dramatically less complex than ICE cars, there's much less to break.

The transmission, for example, can't break, because there isn't one.

Getting the equivalent of a million miles in RPM out of electric motors is utterly routine.

They also wear brakes substantially less because of regeneration.

There are a lot of reasons to believe they'll last a lot longer than ICE cars.


Well made ICE vehicle could do that too. But the costs are not worth it for consumers. Big ass diesel semi trucks go over 1 million miles, then they are rebuilt and put back into service. Reliability doesn't just come because your car has an electric motor in it.


Because there are Tesla's that have gone over a million miles.


There's tons of ICE cars that have done it too.




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