A “Maintenance-Free” Vehicle?

Another cost of ownership: Title, taxes, yearly license, etc.

I recently discovered some LARGE incentives for buying an EV. In Denmark, the taxes on a new vehicle are 180% of the purchase price. So, a $25,000 car will cost be $45,000 in sales tax! If the car qualifies as an EV, it is EXEMPT from this fee. Even with this tax break, there are only 497 EV in Denmark.

So, it appears there are issues other than money.

I've been looking at small (City) cars, there still isn't a small affordable electric car available in the UK.
So I'll probably be getting a small 5 door 1.2 automatic something or other, there's a few out there for about £9k new (not that I'd prob want a new one). but there's no EV to compare with the performance of that sort of car, which is where they should be competing surely?
An EV would certainly save on new spark plugs, although most car manufacturers recomend changing them at least 5 times more often than needed (IMO).
Del

The "maintenance free" doesn't mean a whole lot. All it means is there aren't any items that are maintainable by the DIY'er. The goal of Detroit is to have vehicles that cannot be maintained by the owner and must be done by factory trained technicians. We all know that over the years, less maintenance can be carried out by the owner because of the use of specialized diagnostic tools and special tools available only to the trade. You never see shadetree mechanics working on computer age vehicles. There just isn't much a DIY'er can do with today's high tech cars. I can remember days past when you could tune up an engine, modify settings, add superchargers and high energy ignition systems. You still can, but only on cars earlier than say 1970. Sure "maintenance free" is nice, but it's not cost free. In the future, the public will be spending more money to drive the latest and greatest that Detroit can can come up with. Remember back around the 50's; Rolls Royce had "sealed" engines. If something went wrong, you had to take it to an authorized RR dealer. This was the first "maintenance free" vehicle and not many of us could afford one, but if you could afford a RR, you could afford to have it maintained by someone else. This is the way of the future of "maintenance free" vehicles. There was a time after WWII that almost anyone could afford to buy and maintain a Chevy Impala that cost less than 10K. Today, you have to pay 3X that for a modest average car.

That's a GA, but the stupid system here is saturated right now and won't let me vote. Even CR4#1 seems not to know how to fix this, and I have given up complaining to Admin.