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While there have been considerable reports of people heading to the mechanic in an EV, only to be turned away, there are some mechanics who are qualified to work on EVs. An easy thing to do is simply call your local mechanic and ask them whether they can service your ride. They’ll ask you what needs doing, and they’ll take it from there. Regardless of whether or not your local mechanic can service your electric vehicle, you don’t need to visit a mechanic very often, anyway.

It’s true: electric cars need to be serviced less than petrol cars. This primarily comes down to the fact that electric cars have batteries, and not engines. Engines are quite complicated little buggers, with loads of different parts; pistons, head gaskets, radiator, coolant tanks and many more. When you service your internal combustion engine car, the bulk of the work gets done on the engine – things like oil changes, spark plug changes, engine filters, transmission coolant flushes, drive belt care and more.

The conventional wisdom is that rapid charging your EV battery can speed up its capacity decline – if you overdo it. This is because fast-charging any battery produces more waste heat – and heat is one of those things that can contribute to lithium-ion battery degradation.
The truth is that all batteries, no matter their quality, degrade over time.

While there’s every possibility that Labor could go ahead and extend their FBT and import tariff exemptions to other forms of electric-powered vehicles, like buses and bikes, we’ve got to take things one step at a time.
While it seems logical and practical to implement tax exemptions for electric motorbikes, scooters, trucks and so on, we don’t know what Labor has in stock for us on that front.