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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.


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[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (10 children)

This is true for pretty much all cars made in the past 10 years with electric parking brakes. Even more so in the past couple years with complete brake by wire systems now being used. We are starting to get cars in quite frequently where the owner tried to replace the brakes themselves, or flush the brake fluid, and the brakes are no longer working and the dash is lit up like a Christmas tree.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's pretty easy to put my 2021 Traverse into service mode and retract the parking brake. Honestly, the easiest car I've ever done rear brakes on. I would hope other manufacturers have a feature along those lines, too.

[–] pahlimur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

GM until very recently has been fairly serviceable at home. I pulled the engine out of our 2019 to do a timing chain, put it back and it didn't even notice. I was worried the whole time it would have to be towed to a dealer to be reactivated, but nope, nothing.

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