https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/...ecret-is-tires/

Electric Vehicle Maintenance Is Super-Cheap, But The Dark Secret Is Tires

Today I completed the annual maintenance on my 3.5 year old electric car. I refilled the wiper fluid and added a bit of air to the tires. That’s it. Except for two other things, that’s all I’ve done in the life of the car, though one of those things was a doozy.

The promise of the electric car is that it needs almost no maintenance. There are no oil changes or minor, regular and major service appointments. There are far fewer parts and fewer things to go wrong. In time, I’ll need new wiper blades and a few other minor things. Many drivers report their brake pads not wearing out after 200,000 miles because EV driving almost never uses the brakes.

I did change out the internal air filter to add a HEPA filter for the wildfire and Covid problems of today. That cost about $40 and a bit of time, and probably will need doing again 3 years later.

The doozy was needing new tires at around 28,000 miles. That was too early, far before their rated life. One reason for this was a stupid mistake on my part. In the past, I’ve taken my gasoline cars in for regular service, and they were rotating my tires as needed during this service. Not taking my EV in for service, I never got the rotation done. That not only meant the drive tires of my car wore out faster, it also meant I could not make a warranty claim on them. Lesson learned.

Bicycle, bus and trains cost less and more eco-friendly travel.

If you dunno tire rotation is required every 10,000km, then you are a useless car owner when it comes to maintaining your car.

My EV tyres cost RM2200 per donut. Sigh.

Gila... What size?

size?

Don’t they have linglong?

This post has been edited by msacras: Jul 17 2023, 02:01 PM

cc7 on EV ok anot?

its cheap until the battery, inverter start failing.

You all dont know real EV tires are really expensive, just google about EV tires.
Due to high torque and requirements to meet (long range/better efficient/ silent running) actual EV tires are made with more features to meet = more $$$
If you cheapskate and change normal tires it wont last long (shorter tread life), shorter running range (which most EV owners are scare of), louder road noise.

This post has been edited by littlefire: Jul 17 2023, 02:05 PM

20 inch

yes, it is right now... later know the real deal

Not only that, they are also made to be very silent. There's a silence foam block inside it, like Tesla tyre.

Betul maintenance is cheap, but what happen if faulty it with the battery?

got cheap tires from china yet...?

maintenance cheap but battery mahal

In Malaysia, because petrol is super subsidized, else is comparable.

OK boomer, but BMW says don't rotate tires, https://www.cartalk.com/content/owners-manual-my-bmw-i-says

Tukar battery. Either whole, or send for repair (replace individual faulty battery).

This is bullshit lah. Aduhmak