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I mean what do you do if your Jeep or Toyota breaks down!? Walk!?
Have you ever fixed an older combustion engine vehicle? You watch a youtube video and a few hours later, you can, in most cases, at least get the car to a state so you can drive it to a mechanic. On modern combustion engine vehicles this is still possible, although a bit more difficult.
Uhhh, EVs? No way you're fixing anything in there.
In an ICE you can have an air/fuel/electrical issue, and the entire system is designed to overcome the inherent design flaws of the technology, thus making it convoluted and difficult to understand. Not only can an EM be explained and taught far easier than a full ICE breakdown, but you can literally build one as an Elementary school science project with some copper wire, batteries, and magnets. The technology has only one point of failure as opposed to three. If it doesn't work, electricity is the ONLY possible reason.
EM's have a significantly smaller chance of failure due to the simplicity of the design with fewer moving parts, so while current EM's aren't really built to be repaired by their operators, one that's designed to be would be incredibly simple for the layman to understand and repair had they the knowledge and tools available. The technology itself isn't the issue, in fact, I'd argue the average random could learn how to repair an EM in much less time than an ICE, we just don't build them that way currently (like how we don't build modern ICE's to be repaired by their drivers.)
That all sounds very impressive, rocket m00se. Until you get down to the tricky business of actually trying to identify and replaced a single failed cell in a massive factory-sealed battery array. It is NOT easy and there are many traps placed in your way on purpose. I would rather work on a broken ICE vehicle any day of the week.
It's almost like I specifically mentioned that modern vehicles (no matter the powerplant) aren't designed to be fixed by the person driving it, and are created so that special tools/technicians are needed.
I stand by my point, EM's are far simpler and if they were designed like old cars with the owner in mind, they'd be dead simple for someone with next to zero knowledge to troubleshoot compared to the over engineered mess that internal combustion ended up as.