A lot of the little stuff you just live with on an old car. It's the medium stuff that kills you. If something big goes you just trash the car, but it's the many $500 - $3k repairs that eat you alive. Brakes, suspension, CV joints, et cetera.
Electric cars don't eliminate this kind of stuff, but they do reduce it. Brake wear is almost completely eliminated, differentials usually are eliminated, transmissions are single speed transfer boxes, CV joints are sometimes eliminated, et cetera.
I've seen so much skepticism about this. People without EVs can't seem to believe that brake pads don't experience much wear on EVs.
I owned a Toyota Prius for many years, and while not a pure EV, it still used regenerative braking, and after several years of driving, the brake pads were no more worn than when I bought it.
I traded it for a Fiat 500e, pure EV, and I don't expect to have to replace the brake pads on it, probably ever.
We owned a Toyota Hybrid that someone totaled at ~100k miles, had the factory pads on it. I expect the pads on all of our Teslas to last the life of the vehicles. It’s a minor benefit, but super nice to not need to bother with pad and rotor replacements.
Electric cars don't eliminate this kind of stuff, but they do reduce it. Brake wear is almost completely eliminated, differentials usually are eliminated, transmissions are single speed transfer boxes, CV joints are sometimes eliminated, et cetera.