[topkai22]

EVs have less maintenance costs than ICEs in general, but they have particularly less maintenance requirements during the for the lifespan rental companies keep their cars, often less then 30k miles. During that time you are really just looking at oil changes, fluids, and filters, which EVs don’t have or have less of.

Later in a car’s lifecycle you’ll start seeing things like tires, brakes (better with regenerative!), and trim start needing replacement, along with the battery. My older ICE’s most expensive maintenance issues in the last 2 years were the window regulators all failed- that has nothing to do with the power train.

Which is all to say EVs are cheaper to run overall, but they are suited to save even more money for rental companies than individual consumers.

[RHSeeger]

> My older ICE’s most expensive maintenance issues in the last 2 years were the window regulators all failed

I had a car a number of years back where the window controls failed. Fixing it would have been so expensive (more than I could afford at the time) that I drove the entire NY winter with some plastic material taped over the top half of the window (as far up as it was when it failed).

[topkai22]

Yeah, I did that for the first one for a month because I couldn’t get in to a mechanic for weeks. After that, I searched “how to replace a window regulator in <my car>” on YouTube and then figured out how to do it myself.

Turns out it was about 45 minutes for me to do it myself. Not only did I save money (about $500 for all of them), but I saved time- going to a mechanic always ended up being about 2h