Repairable and reliable is often counter to efficiency. The tradeoff is very hard. A car that is less efficient is much more convenient than an efficient car that regularly gets maintened.
There are very efficient and reliable cars out there too. A good reason why most taxis for about 15 years now are hybrids is because of how reliable they are.
I mean the lack of reliability in modern refrigerators isn’t because the better refrigerants and insulators and electronics are less reliable than electro-mechanical systems, it’s because they use the absolute cheapest shit in the control boards, position them where they are exposed to humidity, and then duplicate that 4+ times to have different cooling zones.
There’s a reason chest freezers last forever and are much cheaper than the refrigerator you put in your kitchen.
Repairable and reliable is often counter to efficiency. The tradeoff is very hard. A car that is less efficient is much more convenient than an efficient car that regularly gets maintened.
There are very efficient and reliable cars out there too. A good reason why most taxis for about 15 years now are hybrids is because of how reliable they are.
I mean the lack of reliability in modern refrigerators isn’t because the better refrigerants and insulators and electronics are less reliable than electro-mechanical systems, it’s because they use the absolute cheapest shit in the control boards, position them where they are exposed to humidity, and then duplicate that 4+ times to have different cooling zones.
There’s a reason chest freezers last forever and are much cheaper than the refrigerator you put in your kitchen.
I talked about engines.
A 2003 Honda Accord has a more fuel efficient and reliable engine than many newer vehicles.