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Tesla maintenance and repair costs are lowest in the auto industry: data

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Tesla’s 10-year maintenance and repair costs are the most affordable in the automotive industry, as shown in a new data analysis publicized last week. “Also, expensive luxury vehicles are often quite expensive to maintain as well over time.” Four out of five of the least expensive brands to maintain were U.S.

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Argonne study finds BEVs can have lowest scheduled maintenance costs, but highest cost of driving

Green Car Congress

The study considers five different powertrains (internal combustion engine, hybrid-electric, plug-in hybrid-electric, fuel-cell-electric, and battery-electric) and 12 cost components (purchase cost, depreciation, financing, fuel, insurance, maintenance, repair, taxes, registration fees, tolls and parking, payload capacity and labor).

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Consumer Reports analysis finds EV owners spending half as much on maintenance compared to owners of gas-powered vehicles

Green Car Congress

A new analysis by Consumer Reports finds that owners of plug-in electric vehicles are spending half as much on maintenance and repair as the owners of similar gas-powered vehicles. Average maintenance/repair costs over vehicle lifetime. Average maintenance/repair costs over vehicle lifetime.

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Electric Vehicles Have Much Lower Maintenance Costs

CleanTechnica EVs

This has been something that electric vehicle fans have been telling people for years. Whoops, I should say: decades. Actually, BEV fans were probably even saying this more than a century ago.)

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Sandia, national lab partners studying vulnerabilities of electric vehicle charging infrastructure

Green Car Congress

With electric vehicles becoming more common, the risks and hazards of a cyberattack on electric vehicle charging equipment and systems also increases. Johnson and his team recently published an open-access summary of known electric vehicle charger vulnerabilities in the journal Energies. Johnson et al.

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How Electric Vehicles Help You Prolong the Life of Your Fleet

Green Fleet Magazine

When considering electric vehicles for a commercial or government fleet, fleet owners and managers must always ask, “How much will this cost?” Fleet managers try to prolong the working lives of their vehicles with regular maintenance and efficient usage.

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Simple But Important Maintenance Many Tesla Owners Forget

CleanTechnica EVs

Tesla Maintenance In this article, I’m going to focus on the brake fluid test, but I figured I’d include the ENTIRE Tesla Recommended Maintenance below, since it is so small. Some […].