[levymetal]

> Part of me wonders whether the move to electric vehicles from ICE will resemble the move from CRT to LCD televisions. Less robust…

EVs are far more robust than ICEs from a mechanical level, as the number of moving parts is reduced by orders of magnitude. The problem is electronics, but this has been plaguing ICEs for over 30 years. There’s no reason for the electronics in an EV to any less robust than an ICE, but we are going to see far fewer mechanical failures.

EV or ICE, it seems unlikely any of these cars will be running in 30 years let alone 50. Eventually the electronics fail to a point that is too difficult to diagnose or fix.

Case in point - had a friend with a mid 2000s Astra. Everything worked except for the left indicator. Eventually the car was written off as no one could fix it. The car was just over 10 years old at the time.