EVs don’t need constant maintenance

I’m responding to a letter that was critical of the governor’s expansion of electric vehicle charging stations. EVs are nothing new. They’ve been around since the late 18th century. The only thing that has stopped them from continued development, besides battery technology, is the gas engine and oil companies development around it. The person who wrote this rails against tires wearing out too fast and the electrical grid not being able to handle the amount of electrical demand. The exact opposite is true. While tires might wear out faster because of weight, it is negligible. He fails to understand that other than tires, brakes and wiper blades, there’s not much else to wear out on an EV. There is no conventional drive train, cooling system, engine, transmission and rear end. All that requires constant, expensive maintenance in a gas vehicle. I remember reading an article a few years ago about how car dealers are going to hate EVs because the service income will disappear. Just recently, the national grid beat coal and nuclear in electrical production for the first time ever, putting us on the unstoppable road to carbon neutrality. We have no shortage of juice in the grid. We may not see the results in our lifetimes in getting away from fossil fuels, but our grandkids will thank us.