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by sitharus 2551 days ago
Certainly suspension, steering and auxiliaries are the things that break, but every year (or 15,000km, or whatever your manufacturer recommends) you need to replace the engine oil and filter. Less frequently you need transmission fluids, coolant, air intake filter, brake pads and other consumables. On diesels you also need to refill the emissions compensation tank (the one VW cheated with), replace particulate filters. Heavily used vehicles need these replaced more often.

Electric motors will need their bearings replacing eventually, but they have no transmission fluids, no circulating oil picking up combustion products, and regenerative braking removes a huge amount of wear on brake pads.

I have a plug-in hybrid (EV infrastructure isn't great where I live) and after 2500km the brakes still stick like new. They've barely been used.