> I don't believe this is stable state. EVs are more reliable because they're new. They haven't gone through enough value engineering cycles. The market has a structural incentive to optimize away all quality, until the result is barely fit for advertised function - so I expect that once EVs start dominating, they'll also start breaking at the rate people are used to with ICE cars, because manufacturers will optimize away spare capacity and surplus material of every component.
This is a completely nonsensical argument that doesn't fit the real world data. ICE cars have steadily improved in reliability over time. A car that made it to 100k miles was notable in the 80s. A car model from 2010 that didn't routinely make it to 100k miles would probably be considered defective.
The metric is, how long before you have to get it to a mechanic to fix a component failure, and how difficult/expensive it is. Engine durability is good in ICE cars these days - it's everything else that falls apart much quicker.
This is completely anecdotal and could be explainable by survivorship bias, but in my experience, past 1990 or so, the newer the car is, the more likely it is to cause regular and expensive maintenance burden on the owner.
Also, think of it this way: people are already used to having to do some serious maintenance work on their cars around 100k miles - why would EV manufacturers not want to eventually target similar repair schedule? In complex projects like these, reliability is a controlled variable.
This is a completely nonsensical argument that doesn't fit the real world data. ICE cars have steadily improved in reliability over time. A car that made it to 100k miles was notable in the 80s. A car model from 2010 that didn't routinely make it to 100k miles would probably be considered defective.