US analysis: Electric cars initially with higher maintenance costs than combustion engineers

Actually, electric cars are considered to be cheaper compared to conventional vehicles, since there are significantly less wear-consuming components and measures such as oil, spark plug or fuel filter change are eliminated.However, a new analysis now comes to the conclusion that models operated with electricity initially ensure significantly more service effort than combustion engines.This is mainly because the technology is still new and unusual.There are also big differences between the manufacturers.

The US analysis company WE Predict has examined around 19 million vehicles between the model years 2016 and 2021.The data would show that the service for e-vehicles is 2.3 times more expensive after three months than with vehicles with an incinerated engine.After a year, e-vehicles are only 1.6 times more expensive.One of the most important factors for the costs reduced within the first year were a decrease in maintenance costs by 77 percent and a slight decline in repair costs.However, the data also showed that the service technicians spend twice as much time with the diagnosis of problems with electric vehicles as with petrol engines.The repair takes 1.5 times longer and the average workload is 1.3 times higher.

According to Renee Stephens, Vice President at WE Predict, the higher costs are partly due to the fact that electric cars and their problems are still new and unusual for many technicians."It is an industry that is in the initial phase," she said in a press conference."This is the introductory factor that we see here." Most repairs affect e-car-specific components, for example problems with cabling or with the store.We Predict also found that in many cases electric cars have problems with the bikes, which the company attributes to greater wear and tear due to voluminous batteries and the overall heavier vehicles.

After the evaluation of We Predict, the maintenance costs in the current electric cars differ significantly.For example, it was best to do under the recently introduced electric cars of the Ford Mustang Mach-E: After three months of operation, the service costs in the USA were $ 93 per vehicle and thus far below those of the next placed competitor Audi e-tron with $ 366per vehicle.The Porsche Taycan has $ 667 per vehicle, the Jaguar I-Pace to $ 834.

"It seems as if they had managed the electric car bases well," said Stephens about Ford. "This is a good sign for your future." We Predict wants to publish another report that is with the maintenance costs of electric cars after three years of termdeals.Then the lower maintenance costs of the alternative drive type expected by industry experts could also be confirmed.