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EV Clinic
Company blog · evclinic.euhardwarebusiness
EV Clinic is the company blog at evclinic.eu, writing about hardware and business. Since 2024, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link EV Clinic, an EV repair shop, for its articles on EVs, hybrids and buying used EVs. One commenter says its articles always offer lots of insight.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
EV Clinic is EU independent EV repair specialist. Tesla, BMW, Mercedes, Kia — repair kits, diag tools & software reset services. Zagreb HQ.
Most-linked posts?
- /2024/11/03/which-used-ev-to-buy-a-beginners-guide/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-18
- BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-05
What Hacker News says?
> best of both worlds And the worst too: https://evclinic.eu/2025/09/27/if-you-drive-a-hybrid-may-god... I don't have first-hand experience, but these guys have an EV repair shop for a while and do also hybrids, their articles always offer lots of insight. Short run down: - micro/mild hybrids are useless: batteries too small, engines too small to be the sole source of power, so contribution to emission reduction is…
Comment linking /2025/09/27/if-you-drive-a-hybrid-may-god-help-you/
on “Can “second life” EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage?”Submitted BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive as a story · 443 points
HN discussionThese guys do a lot of work on ICE, EVs and Hybrids, scroll to the end where they discuss Hybrids https://evclinic.eu/2024/11/03/which-used-ev-to-buy-a-beginn...
Comment linking /2024/11/03/which-used-ev-to-buy-a-beginners-guide/
on “The withering dream of a cheap American electric car”Submitted Real Tesla Multimilionaire is P85 with 1.800.000 km under the belt as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> My impressions had been that it largely mirrors the EV market: A few early PHEV models (such as the BMW i3) had poor battery management leading to unreliable battery packs. BMW i3 owner here. The i3 never had such issues and has been praised for its overall great engineering (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjPIuLz5VFI and https://evclinic.eu/2024/11/03/which-used-ev-to-buy-a-beginn... ). It is also not a PHEV…
Comment linking /2024/11/03/which-used-ev-to-buy-a-beginners-guide/
on “The withering dream of a cheap American electric car”evclinic which repairs EVs has a great article about it: https://evclinic.eu/2024/11/03/which-used-ev-to-buy-a-beginn... Tesla according to them is a great used car to buy. Not all models however. > Based on our experience and that of our colleagues’ labs at 15-20 different locations worldwide, we have concluded that the battery is the last concern on the list during the first 10 years of an EV’s life, with some veh…
Comment linking /2024/11/03/which-used-ev-to-buy-a-beginners-guide/
on “Tesla used car prices keep plumetting, dips below average used car”> I'm not sure where you're getting this idea from, but my PHEV (BYD Shark 6) doesn't drop below 22% battery as the engine is there to charge the battery, not propel the vehicle. > I also believe that most pure BEV drivers would charge their cars daily to mitigate the risk of range anxiety. (not parent poster) I got the perspective from people that wanted to help other people, but stopped repairing PHEVs: - https://…
Comment linking /2025/12/04/2021-phev-bmw-ibmucp-21f37e-post-crash-recovery-when-eu-engineering-becomes-a-synonym-for-unrepairable-generating-waste/
on “BYD's bet on EVs is paying off as drivers ditch gas amid rising oil prices”Which ones? A colleague drives a BMW 3something hybrid and as far as i know has a 14kWh battery.. Thats good for about a 100km, but i very much wouldn't consider that a "fully" electric car by any means (edit: did you edit your post? couldve sworn you said "fully electric" instead of "mediocre range"?)... Also, what most people don't realize: if you're only (or mostly) driving it electric, you're putting many more c…
Comment linking /2024/09/05/bmw-hybrid-repeated-battery-failure/
on “UK: Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds strongly”Battery swapping is a dead technology, it is simply not economical. It is too expensive, much harder to scale and incompatible with cell-to-chassis designs. Industry barely managed to agree on a charging connector! Meanwhile, battery longevity is essentially a solved problem. Manufacturers do have an incentive to improve it due to customer demand, and modern NMC chemistry, cooling and BMS have improved significantly…
Comment linking /2025/12/31/diesel-mythology-vs-ev-reality/
on “Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study”