> The whole engine? Dump the car. You got a lemon. Did you get it checked out by a trusted mechanic before buying
Ok, so ICE cars are incredibly reliable, assuming you write off a ton of them as "you bought a lemon". I might as well say "the whole battery? You bought a lemon, dump the car."
Like, yeah, don't get me wrong, I bought a 2000 V6 Accord with ~80,000mi on it from a friend who I know babied it. I sold it later still in good condition to a family member. It's now nearly 200,000mi and largely just fine, although every now and then the transmission behaves strangely. I'm tempted to buy it back when they're done with it, I loved that car! But it ignores the massive flood of these that ended up with bad transmissions (seemed like a roll of the dice on this generation) and cars that weren't well taken care of. Even if you were to think Accords are generally reliable, the next generation wasn't anywhere near as reliable as that one in the end.
And it ignores all the millions of cars that were scrapped in that same time period.
If your standard of reliability is "hunt for a unicorn", well, that'll happen with EVa as well. It's still a curve of failures, some will be worse and faster than others. Some might make it several hundred miles before significant failures. Some may barely break 100,000. At least I can see the current battery health on the OBD-II port, I can't tell if they actually did fluid changes properly on an ICE.
Ok, so ICE cars are incredibly reliable, assuming you write off a ton of them as "you bought a lemon". I might as well say "the whole battery? You bought a lemon, dump the car."
Like, yeah, don't get me wrong, I bought a 2000 V6 Accord with ~80,000mi on it from a friend who I know babied it. I sold it later still in good condition to a family member. It's now nearly 200,000mi and largely just fine, although every now and then the transmission behaves strangely. I'm tempted to buy it back when they're done with it, I loved that car! But it ignores the massive flood of these that ended up with bad transmissions (seemed like a roll of the dice on this generation) and cars that weren't well taken care of. Even if you were to think Accords are generally reliable, the next generation wasn't anywhere near as reliable as that one in the end.
And it ignores all the millions of cars that were scrapped in that same time period.
If your standard of reliability is "hunt for a unicorn", well, that'll happen with EVa as well. It's still a curve of failures, some will be worse and faster than others. Some might make it several hundred miles before significant failures. Some may barely break 100,000. At least I can see the current battery health on the OBD-II port, I can't tell if they actually did fluid changes properly on an ICE.