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For a while, it was gospel that electric vehicles were LESS expensive to maintain than traditional internal-combustion types. After all, EV's don't need oil/filter changes every 5,000 miles.
Turns out that the 'less cost' theory is dead wrong.
It costs more to service electric vehicles than their gasoline-powered counterparts, but the gap narrows over time, according to new data from analytics firm We Predict.
The company, which released data this year saying EVs were 2.3 times more expensive to service than ICE vehicles after three months of ownership, said Wednesday that there is a caveat: After one year, EVs are just 1.6 times more expensive to service....
.. the data showed that service techs are spending twice as long diagnosing problems with EVs vs. those with gasoline vehicles. They are spending 1.5 times longer fixing them, and their average labor rate was 1.3 times higher....
Yup. $80.00-$100.00/hour labor charges pay for a LOT of oil changes.
Hope the owners are budgeting for future battery replacement.
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