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This is what we get when people buy things they barely understand, and refuse to learn about. Bluntly, I don't understand how someone can buy, own, and use something that they continually rely on with nearly zero knowledge of how it works, how it fails and what pitfalls you may experience in extreme operating conditions. Additionally, how to recognize when things are going sideways and what to do about it.
It reminds me of the last time I had a car overheat on me. It was just as cold as this (around -25C or -30C), and I was driving to work. The vehicle was a beater, so it was in some state of disrepair. As you can imagine, it was an ICE vehicle. It started just fine, or at least as fine as I can expect from the conditions, and I hit the highway. I was headed to work and didn't have enough time to just let it warm up before heading out. I'm driving down the highway, waiting for the heater to start working. It didn't. The temperature gauge on the dash stayed pinned to "cold", and no heat from the heater core.... After a few minutes on the highway, I knew something was very very wrong. I pulled off the highway and to the first gas station I saw. I turned off the car as quickly as I could. I checked and there was no coolant in the engine I went in to the station and picked up some premixed coolant, refilled the vehicle with coolant, and the first few short pours vaporized as soon as they went in. Once it stopped vaporizing coolant, I filled it up. I made it to work, a little late, but with a working car.
You don't need to know every fucking detail about how the vehicle does what it does, just the broad strokes about the basic systems that keep the vehicle working and how they fail and how they're maintained. If you don't, well..... Just look at the OP.
Would you learn things that can go wrong with your washing machine, and how fix them? Probably not, you would either send it in for warranty, repair or buy a new one.
The people do not care about their car on a fundamental level. Cars are just another appliance to them. That's why Prius drivers are so notorious. They do not give a fuck about anything but getting from point a to b, and doing so as cheaply as possible.
EV's seem to share a similar fate. I'd even go as far as to say these people might have bought the vehicle BECAUSE it requires less maintenance. It's just another dollar number in a spreadsheet for them.
I'm not sure, but if you draw the ven diagram of people that can recognize an issue with their cars heater core (and know what that is) stop and fill the radiator with coolant and the ven diagram of people that would understand what's wrong with their washing machine and attempt a repair themselves is just a circle.
I know the people outside that circle exist, but they really should spend a few minutes learning how things they depend on work, to save a few dollars in their spreadsheet.