What kind of regular maintenance does an EV motor and battery require? Coolant change at 150K miles or 15 years?Edit: Coolant change at 120K then ~24K after that, so four coolant changes.
The motor? Not much. Rest of the car still needs maintenance, brakes, brake fluid, making sure that parts that require grease are greased, tires(way more often than ICE) and don’t use fast chargers or fill your battery to full constantly, also don’t drive or live in extreme weather conditions… basically 90s is extreme and 10* is extreme. These conditions lower the battery life itself.
Coolant (many times)
Huh? Have you ever owned an ICE vehicle? Coolant doesn’t need to be changed but maybe once in 200k miles when you change the water pump.
Oil (many many times) Oil filter (many many times)
Older cars do 6-8k miles per change. New ICE cars can do 30k+ so it’s like 7 times for new cars.
Timing belt or chain (at least once, possibly twice)
If its a chain then no.
Timing belt tensioner (at least once, possibly twice)
Timing belt idler pulley (at least once)
You’re just listing off the same job here. You don’t change this stuff by itself, its part of a TB job.
Water pump (probably)
Same here, pretty much all cars now have the TB running the WP. So you just change it during the TB change.
Various oil seals and gaskets
Uhh? Which are what? I have 300k miles on my 22 year old landcruiser… valve cover gaskets I’ve done once… everything else is still the original stuff.
Spark plugs (twice)
Sure
Ignition coils (probably)
Part of the spark plug job.
Serp belt (likely three or four times)
No. Once.
Serp belt tensioner (at least once)
Same job.
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Battery (at least twice)
Maybe, depends on how shit the battery is.
Alternator (probably)
Nope
Fuel pump (probably)
Not a chance.
Fuel filter (more than once)
Once if that, most don’t need to. Gas is heavily refined and most people aren’t putting dirt into their tanks
Huh? There are a bunch of manufacturers now that have motors that do 10-15k, 20-30k mile oil changes. The hell are you talking about. The myth of the 3k mile oil change was created by the quick lube places to get money. I do my changes on a 22 year old car every 8k miles, new motors have way tighter tolerances and do way better on oil than older motors.
BMW has a good number, hell Toyota rav4, mini Coopers, mercs. You’re behind the times if you think this is not true. Full synthetic oils and tighter tolerances in motors have gotten motors to this point. It’s not 1953 where the motors consume oil and topping them up during fueling is a thing.
Can’t find anything specific on the Mini Cooper, different dealers are saying anything from 4K miles to 12K miles. BMW dealers are saying anywhere between 5K and 15K. Mercedes looks to be every 10K miles.
First change is at 10k the next is at 30k, and that’s a rav4. This isn’t new, oils have gotten way better and motors are engineered at much higher tolerances.
The motor? Not much. Rest of the car still needs maintenance, brakes, brake fluid, making sure that parts that require grease are greased, tires(way more often than ICE) and don’t use fast chargers or fill your battery to full constantly, also don’t drive or live in extreme weather conditions… basically 90s is extreme and 10* is extreme. These conditions lower the battery life itself.
Huh? Have you ever owned an ICE vehicle? Coolant doesn’t need to be changed but maybe once in 200k miles when you change the water pump.
Older cars do 6-8k miles per change. New ICE cars can do 30k+ so it’s like 7 times for new cars.
If its a chain then no.
You’re just listing off the same job here. You don’t change this stuff by itself, its part of a TB job.
Same here, pretty much all cars now have the TB running the WP. So you just change it during the TB change.
Uhh? Which are what? I have 300k miles on my 22 year old landcruiser… valve cover gaskets I’ve done once… everything else is still the original stuff.
Sure
Part of the spark plug job.
No. Once.
Same job.
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Battery (at least twice)
Maybe, depends on how shit the battery is.
Nope
Not a chance.
Once if that, most don’t need to. Gas is heavily refined and most people aren’t putting dirt into their tanks
Nope, most injectors will do 200k easily.
There are zero ice cars that have 30K oil change intervals. If you’re changing oil every 30K miles, there is no way your engine is making it to 200K.
Huh? There are a bunch of manufacturers now that have motors that do 10-15k, 20-30k mile oil changes. The hell are you talking about. The myth of the 3k mile oil change was created by the quick lube places to get money. I do my changes on a 22 year old car every 8k miles, new motors have way tighter tolerances and do way better on oil than older motors.
8K is reasonable. 30K is not. Source?
BMW has a good number, hell Toyota rav4, mini Coopers, mercs. You’re behind the times if you think this is not true. Full synthetic oils and tighter tolerances in motors have gotten motors to this point. It’s not 1953 where the motors consume oil and topping them up during fueling is a thing.
Toyota vehicles where 0W20 is required have a 10K mile oil change interval. The rest are all 5K.
https://support.toyota.com/s/article/What-are-the-oil-chan-7604?language=en_US
Can’t find anything specific on the Mini Cooper, different dealers are saying anything from 4K miles to 12K miles. BMW dealers are saying anywhere between 5K and 15K. Mercedes looks to be every 10K miles.
Nothing anywhere for anything you’ve cited says 30K miles. Again, source?
https://www.galaxytoyota.net/service/service-tips/toyota-rav4-maintenance-schedule/
That’s 2 seconds of google.
First change is at 10k the next is at 30k, and that’s a rav4. This isn’t new, oils have gotten way better and motors are engineered at much higher tolerances.
Maybe read a little better?
It’s got a 10K mile oil change interval, from the very page you linked. Never mind that the link I posted above was from Toyota the manufacturer.
Here is audi, 20k mile
https://www.prestigeimports.net/service/your-guide-to-audi-scheduled-maintenance-intervals-and-procedures/#%3A~%3Atext=Perform+at+20%2C000+miles+and%2Coccurs+first+–+Minor+Maintenance+Service
At the end of the day, it’s not the oil, it’s the filter. Most are good for 10-15k max, cheaper to just change the filter and keep going.
https://www.performanceoiltechnology.com/amsoil-products/amsoil-extended-life-5w-30-100percent-synthetic-motor-oil
That’s a 20k mile oil from amsoil, directly being advertised as such.