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> But _all_ EVs are crazy reliable too.

The presenter in the linked video argues that all cars - EV or ICE - are getting both better and worse. Better in purely mechanical terms where technological marvels enable them to achieve great durability... worse in overall terms where some electronics is going to fail somewhere and suddenly the entire car won't start.

So i don't think you're wrong to say in specific benchmarks EVs are crazy reliable. But from what i've seen and understood of modern cars, complexity and interdependence of secondary subsystems make them super brittle and very highly likely to end up in a landfill under a decade after leaving the factory.

In fact we already have stats on that where car recalls keep on increasing (more than x4 in a decade), and EVs are not exempt from that as they seem to have ~2x more probability to be recalled (on average) than an ICE car.



Are you counting “recalls” that are remedied by an over the air software update?


I'm not making the stats, and i have no idea why OTA update would be counted as a recall. See for example:

https://www.stout.com/en/news/stouts-2020-automotive-defect-...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/541703/united-states-veh...




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