Regenerative braking means the discs on an Omani EV rust from disuse rather than wear from use — and the suspension carries several hundred kilos more than an engined car of the same size. Oman is not a short country. Salalah is close to a thousand kilometres from Muscat, and the charging between them thins out fast once you are past Nizwa. An electric car here has to be planned around in a way it simply does not in Doha or Dubai. For car repair in Muscat on an electric car, the brakes are the first surprise: they rust from disuse rather than wear from use, because regeneration does most of the stopping.
On most EVs here the pads are barely worn at the point the discs need attention, so the honest job is cleaning, freeing and refacing rather than replacing a set that has 80 percent left. Suspension is the opposite: bushes and top mounts on a car carrying an extra three or four hundred kilos wear early, and on the interior roads earlier still.
For car repair Muscat owners bring us most often, this is it.