The Volkswagen e-Up(and its sisters - Skoda Citigo and Seat Mii Electric) are a pleasure to work with. I'm sure repairing one won't be any issue at all, in fact it should be easier than literally any ICE car. The interior is simple too - no stupid touch interfaces anywhere, everything is laid out logically and "just" works. I also regularly get over 160 miles range. And at £20k it's one of the cheapest EVs you can buy currently.
Ditto all of the above with the MG ZS EV, MG EV5 and the upcoming EV4 - those are cheap, simple EVs, that shouldn't be difficult to maintain at all.
Of course when you look at the market and only see all the E-Trons and EQCs and iX3s and whatnot, it might seem like the EV future is hostile for customers - but those brands were making cars like that even without electric drivetrains. Ask anyone how much fun maintaing a brand new ICE BMW or Audi is exactly.
But, that's not the whole market. There is still plenty of competition from cheaper, more maintainable EV cars, and there will only be more as time goes on.
That's interesting, thanks for sharing! Are you aware of how many controllers an e-Up has? How easy/expensive is it to find replacement parts? Also how many are actually in the critical path to keep the car running?
The presenter in the video says only 3 micro-controllers should be required to operate an electric car in a road-safe manner. However every car model now has hundreds of these and a failure in a single part can take the whole car to refuse to start. So if you find an electric car with few and standard off-the-shelf components, you struck a gold mine and should let us all know about it :)
Ditto all of the above with the MG ZS EV, MG EV5 and the upcoming EV4 - those are cheap, simple EVs, that shouldn't be difficult to maintain at all.
Of course when you look at the market and only see all the E-Trons and EQCs and iX3s and whatnot, it might seem like the EV future is hostile for customers - but those brands were making cars like that even without electric drivetrains. Ask anyone how much fun maintaing a brand new ICE BMW or Audi is exactly.
But, that's not the whole market. There is still plenty of competition from cheaper, more maintainable EV cars, and there will only be more as time goes on.