Just tell him to MTFU and use the brakes harder.
EV's have been around for a long time now. Most of the concerns about them have not been realised.
Including the first year differential oil change?Servicing a Tesla is optional. They’ll still honour the warranty if you decide not to bother. Ever. I don’t know a single ICE car with the same warranty conditions.
Owners only really have to service them if they have the car on finance as the conditions of the agreement usually require It.
I doubt you'll get 2 decades out of many cars nowadays, how many R or S reg cars do you really see around. Current cars are nowhere near as reliable, and finance is cheap so rather than spend mega bucks keeping an old run of the mill car going, most will just 'rent' another car.
Only special cars will have money thrown at them to keep them going.
Somebody I know has recently purchased a PHEV.
Now he hasn't actually had it that long and it already has some 8000 miles on it, so it gets plenty of use.
However, despite this, the disks are already showing signs of quite noticeable surface pitting and corrosion.
To my mind, they simply are not getting enough actual use to keep them clean since the car uses regenerative braking most of the time and only uses the disks/pads when braking hard.
The problem here, and I have seen this many times over the years on cars that only get light use, sooner or later he is going to get those bands of heavy corrosion creeping in from the edges of the sweaped surface until the disks and pads are going to need to be replaced not because of wear but simply because of unacceptable levels of corrosion.
Now, in this case, the vehicle in question is an Audi Q8. A new set of disks/pads all round is probabally going to cost as much as a small car!
But even on less expensive models I am wondering whether this is going to become a routine issue in the future on EV's and hybrids that are designed to use regenerative braking for anything other than emergency stops.
It would be a bit daft if the fuel savings made on one side of the balance were eaten up by higher servicing costs on the other...! :/
Including the first year differential oil change?
I'd imagine that manufacturers will spec the brakes accordingly and adjust their operation to suit either at development or subsequently through software updates.
Somebody I know has recently purchased a PHEV.
Now he hasn't actually had it that long and it already has some 8000 miles on it, so it gets plenty of use.
However, despite this, the disks are already showing signs of quite noticeable surface pitting and corrosion.
To my mind, they simply are not getting enough actual use to keep them clean since the car uses regenerative braking most of the time and only uses the disks/pads when braking hard.
The problem here, and I have seen this many times over the years on cars that only get light use, sooner or later he is going to get those bands of heavy corrosion creeping in from the edges of the sweaped surface until the disks and pads are going to need to be replaced not because of wear but simply because of unacceptable levels of corrosion.
Now, in this case, the vehicle in question is an Audi Q8. A new set of disks/pads all round is probabally going to cost as much as a small car!
But even on less expensive models I am wondering whether this is going to become a routine issue in the future on EV's and hybrids that are designed to use regenerative braking for anything other than emergency stops.
It would be a bit daft if the fuel savings made on one side of the balance were eaten up by higher servicing costs on the other...! :/