The price of new energy electric vehicles was constantly checked down from 2025 to 2026, and tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people were able to land a pure electric car, many of which were driven by cheap electricity and subsidized cars. But after visiting more than a dozen complexes in the last six months and selling brand 4s, a general reality has emerged: more and more car owners are caught in the trap of “buying cars and saving money and repairing cars”。
Many of the vehicles were charged less for daily charge than for refuelling, neglecting the cost of late spare parts, three power maintenance, and several hundred problems could be solved, with the cost of maintenance running at a cost of tens of thousands if the batteries, the electrical controls and the electrics were involved. Many of the older owners of the tankers that were replaced by electric cars responded to the same failure, with electric cars generally paying twice as much or more for maintenance。
This paper, which combines the true quotes from the sub-line repair plant, the data from which the same failure is measured, from day-to-day minor maintenance, accident repair, replacement of perishable items, three major electrical repairs, four dimensions, objectively compares the cost of electric and fuel vehicles, neither erases new energy sources nor deliberately blows up fuel trucks, and decomposes the differences between them. A friend of the car who is planning to start a new car, who is struggling with the oil and electricity options, will be able to avoid the pit of the car and choose the car in a rational manner。
Standard maintenance comparison. Daily maintenance of electric cars seems to save money to hide hidden costs
1. 1 basic small maintenance costs are measured
Fuel truck routine maintenance: oil, machine filtering, empty filtering replacement, up to 100,000 domestic fuel minivans, with an average cost of up to $300 for regular car repair shop near the street, up to $600 for 4s shop maintenance and 5,000-7500 km of maintenance cycle。
(b) general maintenance of pure electric vehicles: no engine, fuel replacement of gear tanks, basic maintenance dominated by three electrical tests, brakes, air-conditioning filter cores, single basic maintenance of 4s at a price of $200-400 and lower surface costs。
Detailed measurements: the unit cost of the basic maintenance of the motor vehicle is low, but the terminal depth detection project, which has a total of 20,000, 40,000 kilometres of maintenance, includes a cooling system, a full electrical control line, and the cost of the single integrated maintenance surged to $600 to $1,000, which is higher than the fuel vehicle of the same grade。
Application of scene/car techniques
Within 10,000 kilometres of a day-to-day household walk year, it is true that the cost of repairing the infrastructure is lower; the distance is over 30,000 kilometres per year, with frequent in-house in-depth testing and the total cost of maintaining the fuel truck slowly being evened。
(b) maintenance stickers: the routine minor maintenance of a tram can be used to refuse to bind unnecessary deep-line maintenance packages when the brand is authorized to sell them。
1. 2 comparison of replacement costs for vulnerable accessories
Brake blades, tyres, rain scratches, car lights are part of the utility wear and tear of oil tankers, and the price of tyre scraping is almost equal; the core gap is in the car lamp, body-controlled fittings。
Examples of actual measurements include a compact model of the same grade, a fuel vehicle replacing a regular led lamp into a subsidiary unit of approximately $400 and an original plant spares of $800; and an identical locator locator locator locator, an integrated motorized circuit board with a total price of $2,200 for the original lamp and a scarce market side-plant spares。
In the case of brakes, the power of the motorbike is recovered, brakes are lost half as slowly as fuel trucks, and brakes have a longer replacement cycle, which is a real advantage。
1. 3 implicit conservation expenses
The electric vehicle is required to periodically check the cooling fluids (for thermal dispersion of power cells) at a higher replacement cost than the engine anti-freezing fluids; most fuel trucks are replaced by refrigerated fluids of 60,000 km and electric battery cooling fluids of 30,000 to 40,000 km require overhaul and increased hidden expenditure。
There's a clear gap in accident maintenance. Third power maintenance is the biggest cost point for a train
2. 1 car body twitches, chassis bumps, repairs
(b) fuel chassis: within a thousand dollars for gear transformers, naked bumps in tanks, recovery of several hundred dollars for tank luminaries and maintenance of the case
(b) trail: large areas of the chassis are covered with power battery packages, with small tortex bumps, even if the shell is not significantly damaged, and the cores and high pressure lines need to be removed from the shop。
The real case of the repair plant: the owner of the car went through a small pit bottom, the naked eye did not see the damage, the shop was inspected for damage to the power cell seal and the repair price was offered at $18,000, and only $350 was recovered from the dimming of the fuel tank。
Practical vehicle techniques
Trains are routinely broken down, speed-reducing bands are slowed down, original factory undercarriage panels are installed, and hundreds of plates circumvent tens of thousands of battery maintenance charges, which are mandatory configurations by the owner。
2. 2 maintenance of three core components (batteries, electrics, electrical controls)
The three main engines, gear tanks, chassis, the market for spare parts, the supply of spare parts at the sub-plant are sufficient to allow for the landing of thousands of dollars for overhauling engines
The tram three-power system is protected by the patent of the enterprise and spare parts are not diverted from third-party repair plants and can only be maintained at the original 4s plant。
Reference to actual quotations:
1. Power cell single failure: it is not possible to replace a single sporadic core, most brands require a full package replacement, and a flat price of $40,000 to $70,000 for a compact electric battery
Driving power failure: the original plant maintenance offer of $8,000-15000
3. Total electrically controlled high voltage damage: start-up of maintenance costs of $10,000。
Advantages added: unmanual damage to three electrical malfunctions was repaired free of charge throughout the original plant's quality insurance period, and the cost of repairing the vehicle after the insurance was fully covered by the owner itself, which is the key reason for the low retention rate of the old used vehicle。
2. 3 insurance cost profile reflects maintenance differentials
A realistic estimate of the cost of insurance for 2025-2026 vehicles is that the cost of repairing the motor vehicles is indirectly reflected in the fact that the cost of repairing the vehicles is generally higher by 8 per cent and 15 per cent than the cost of insurance coverage for motor vehicles。
A practical guide to scrutinizing cars and buying pits
3. 1 three types of master selection programme
1. The city has a short distance, within 10,000 kilometres of the year, and is equipped with domestic charge: priority electric cars, cheap daily electricity, low maintenance, low probability of bumping into a car, high price for long-term vehicles and no concern for high maintenance。
2. There are frequent long distances and poor roads in towns and villages, with distances exceeding 30,000 kilometres per year: priority fuel vehicles, long distances without renewed anxiety, a high probability of bumping the chassis, low maintenance of fuel trucks, and reduced expenditure on unexpected heavy repairs。
3. The limited budget envisages a shift of three to five years: a well-established and stable preservation rate for second-hand parts of fuel vehicles; high maintenance costs for electric vehicles after insurance; and faster trade-offs。
3. 2 purchase of vehicles to avoid pits and 4 dry goods
1. Selecting to buy a tram to give priority to the three-electricity policy, and to select the first owner of the car for life, avoiding the risk of self-recovering
2. Old used electric vehicles, which are not blindly and cheaply available, are mostly above the original plant quality insurance and, in the event of battery failure, far more expensive than vehicle residuals
3. The first time a new vehicle landes on a chassis armoured + battery plate, with hundreds of dollars invested to reduce the probability of damage to the chassis
4. Oil tankers are not replaced blindly by electric cars, and are not attracted only by low electricity costs, taking into account the daily commuting conditions and charging conditions。
3. 3 objective view of oil tanker panels
Fuel trucks are cheap to repair, but they have a long-term high price of more than 20,000 miles per year, and fuel costs far exceed the charge of electric trucks, are not absolutely good or bad, but only fit or not。
A combination of 2025 to 2026 auto-repair market measurements: the advantage of electric cars is concentrated on low daily energy consumption, low cost of small maintenance, low loss of brakes; short panels are concentrated on accident maintenance costs, high cost of three electric perseveration overhauls and poor utility of spare parts. Fuel trucks have high daily fuel costs, but spare parts markets are mature and accident maintenance costs are higher。
The “affordable” is not a label for all trams, which, within a quality-assurance cycle and in a good car environment, are perfectly able to circumvent the cost of large repairs; only old trams with no quality assurance and poor road conditions are easy to repair. New energy sources represent a major trend in car development, but rational choices are not lost when consumers look only at the price of car electricity and incorporate later maintenance costs into car purchase considerations。
Are you driving a fuel truck or a new energy train? Have you ever experienced overpriced car repair? The comment section talks about the cost of your car, and help your friend with the car selection。
