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Originally Posted by Dpmulvan
The issue that keeps me from purchasing EV’s is battery life. The Technology isn’t there yet. I have an electric motocross bike and an electric mountain bike and the batteries simply don’t last as long as advertised and replacing them every year, year and a half gets pricey.
Motocross battery is a couple grand and mountain bike $500-$600.
So you spend let’s say 60,000 to 80,000 ish on a car, two years down the road the battery won’t take a full charge and you start to lose range, eventually you need a new battery $15,000 to $20,000. Who wants to put another $15,000 into a 2 year old car knowing that in two years you’re going to have to do it again.
They’re a novelty and until they can find better energy densities and come down in price they’ll continue to be a novelty.
I keep hearing about promising new tech like graphene, sodium et but it never seems to go anywhere.
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Well my real world experience says that's not exactly reality. I have 100K miles on my almost 10 year old Model S. It's on the original battery and I've lost about 8% of my original range. It's been at that for about 2 years now. Good friend also has a Model S and similiar situation.
Wife's Model 3 is a 2021, she's at 67K miles and she's lost about 2% of range. This is our real world data, but maybe others differ.
Also I don't know about other manufacturers, but Teslas battery warranty is over and above the car warranty. On my car, I believe it was 8 years and not more then a certain percentage of degradation. I forget what it was. Now I believe it's 8 years and a certain mileage limit like 150K or so. Point is, your not replacing batteries or losing range every 2 years on a EV.