Electric engines have very long lives and require minuscule maintenance. It is the batteries that are the problem.
Sounds something akin to hydrogen dirigibles. The Hindenburg only had one real major flaw.
So just the batteries. Like ... the things that make the car GO?
A little like, “Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”
I guess that’s why you never see anybody driving a Tesla in Zombie movies...
“Electric engines have very long lives”
There is no such thing as an “electric engine”. They are motors.
It is the batteries that “were” the problem.
More ICE vehicles had fires than EV’s