How long can these cars last?

[Moley 17]

True that, a mate of mine has one of those expensive Dutch bikes.

I use silicon 'dry lube' on the transmissions of my bicycles.

At least we don't have a push belt in our e-cvt transmission.

 

[yardbird]

The transmission lines of Edison failed lately & caused nightmares for us in LA!

 

[Farmer Palmer]

You haven't looked under your car have you? There is no propellor shaft, and no transfer case. The rear diff contains an electric motor instead.

To be clear the PHEV has no gearing, no reduction range, and are totally incapable of high torque low speed 4WD. They are strictly townie 4WD for getting off wet grass.

Not strictly true. They run on their electric (high torque) motors and drive on fully engaged (front to back) 4 wheel drive using (as many 4x4’s now do) anti lock brake sensor technology to work out when traction is being lost and on which wheel to adjust drive effectively.
I’m a farmer with a lot of experience of 4x4’s etc and have tested my Outlander round the farm. I was expecting a less than impressive result but the off road performance is actually surprisingly competent, accepting the limitations of tyre type and ground clearance. I would agree that water depth performance is a lot less than more hard core ICE 4x4’s but it is mostly an estate car in design so allowances should be made

 

[littlescrote]

Good to see the word being used correctly for several posts in a row

Edit: apart from that nonsense about an e-CVT from Moley 17