That's really more of a Subaru problem and their insane persistence on using the boxer engine they can't seem to make reliable. Stuff like radiators and heat exchangers aren't routine items. The issues you mention with MOPAR are just usual MOPAR things. They're the butt of jokes for a reason.
ICE would be a no-go for me because the likelihood that a startup could somehow create a well-executed reliable ICEV from scratch seems.extremely low.
Wow. Very well said. I don't have an answer to your question. With respect to your battery life comment. I suspect that generally, outright battery failures happen during the battery warranty period and if they make it to the warranty expiration that they will probably die of slow steady degradation. I was looking at used Teslas at a nearby used car dealer over the weekend and a salesman told me that he recently sold a BMW i3 to a man that was buying a car for his wife and the battery had degraded to where it only had 40 miles of range when fully charged. The man told him his wife only drove around town and 40 miles was plenty for her. I think a lot of older EV's will get relegated to a less demanding duty cycle as they age instead of having that tranny situation you have with your car. My mother-in-law drives about 1200 miles per year so an EV that is limited to 40 miles of range would not be a constraint or her.
I cannot possibly see how that would be the case. The industry has a huge well-experienced ICEV supply chain and engineers to go along with it.
A total of 30-cents per mile, and of that 4.6-cents per mile for maintenance, that is actually pretty good. Forbes cites 6-cents per mile for EV maintenance and 10-cents for ICEV.
I chose the Versa because it was listed at the time as the vehicle with the lowest total cost of ownership overall. Of course that would have been for the more basic model without the CVT.
My daily driver BMW 3-series cost me $30-cents per mile over its 19-year 426,000-mile lifetime. I DIY'd 95% of the service and repairs. If I add in the estimate of labor savings, it's 35-cents per mile.
By my rough calculations an EV Truck would cost at least $1,000 less per year to operate.
I’m fully expecting to save at least $1500/yr on gas alone, everything else can be same.
Yes... But the cost to develop and set up production for just a single modern emissions compliant engine family from scratch, not even including the transmission, is in the hundreds-of-millions of dollars... So like at least 50% of their entire fundraising so far. The only realistic ICE option would be to buy from a brand that has zero interest in competing in the same space, like Ineos does in using a BMW engine in the Grenadier.
