They’re expensive. And some of us who don’t live in houses with garages are too busy to run to someplace a couple of miles away at least, to charge them up.
Our car is almost 8 years old and doesn’t even have 30K on it now; but two or three times per year my husband drives a long way to see his family. He doesn’t want to bother with stopping and charging; and we don’t need an ‘electric car’.
I’m unhappy that you can’t still buy a decent car with roll-up windows and actual keys. All of those electronics get very pricey when they have to be fixed - over the past year, we’ve spent about $500 just to fix an automatic window that wouldn’t go up and down reliably. I can’t imagine the repair costs possibly encountered on a fully electric car.
“All of those electronics get very pricey when they have to be fixed - over the past year, we’ve spent about $500 just to fix an automatic window that wouldn’t go up and down reliably.”
Every car I. have owned in the las 40 years has had power windows. The only repairs I have had was replacing a fuel pump after 120k miles and having a screw work loose jamming the wipers and burning out the motor. That works out to less than 2 cents per day.
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You and me both- Cot me $80 dollars to have a spare key made for our toyata corolla, and was told that would be all we could order, because apparently, there is only a certain number of spares that can be made for a single cars electronic contraption for the ‘chipped key’. Evidently, if i want another key, i will have to have the whole chip system replaced, and start all over with the limited number of spare keys again-
I used to walk into any hardware store- have a key made for around $2.00 or so, and it would both open the door AND start the vehicle= I can still get keys made to open the door on our toyata, and it’s abotu $9.00 now- BUT I can not get a key mde to start the vehicle UNLESS i am willing to shell out however much it will cost to replace the chopped key system in the car-
Sounds like you either bought a GM or a German car.
My Toyota is 20 years old and the power windows are both all original and work just fine with 240K on the clock.