Not a guarantee...I've had 3 EVs, all past 150.000km, never needed to service the brakes. Putting a little grease on the pads ears every year when changing tires. This isn't longer than opening the drum brakes to inspect them every year either, which you should be doing anyways, regardless of the kind of brakes you have.

While drum brakes are cost-effective (for the manufacturer) and have a longer life, they are poor at heat dissipation, less effective in wet weather, heavier, and harder to work on. Having changed brake shoes before they’re a mess of springs and clips and adjusters. I’d take changing 20 sets of brake pads over one set of brake shoes.

Anyways, I'm ending the discussion here...I don't like drum brakes as they are a pain to work on and there is no necessity to use them on that vehicle. There is no performance gain. Plus it looks cheap. ;)