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There's no way you're driving 500,000km in an ICE without replacing stuff like spark plugs, clutch, alternator, filters, sensors.
...And emissions valves, vacuum hoses, evap canisters, fuel cap/seals, possibly a valve cover gasket, serpentine belt, tensioner, and idlers, fuel filter, possibly the fuel pump. 500,000 kilometers is 310,685 miles for all the Yanks and Brits in the audience, and if you manage to drive a combustion car that far without needing all of those things, let alone any selection of them, I will eat my distributor cap.
I've driven a diesel Renault for 12 years (loke 300k km) and didn't need to replace any of those. The only big unplanned cost I had was a faulty EGR valve, which happened at 600km and wasn't warranty for some reason.
That said regular oil change for clutch and brakes were mildly expensive, but I guess even for EV you'd want the brake hydraulics replaced the same way.
Edit : just spotted filters. Yeah I replaced every filter every service, but with how grimy they look, even in EV I'd argue for replacing them.
Just a FYI there is no filter on an EV (except maybe cabin and that should only be once a year or two even for maintenance conscious).
But yeah, maintenance costs aren't that much more. Not needing anything changed is an outlier just like needing everything changed.
Replacing brakes on an EV should be much less frequent, since regenerative braking doesn’t use the brakes
Funnily enough I heard mechanic friends say that EVs need the brake rotors replaced more often than combustion cars, because the EVs use the brakes so infrequently that the rotor just rusts so badly it needs replacing.