• zurohki@aussie.zone
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    8 months ago

    That’s due to battery prices. You can’t pay $25,000 for a battery, put it in a shitbox and sell it for $30,000 because nobody’s going to buy a $30,000 car with the features and quality of a $5,000 car. Batteries can only be maybe a third of the cost of a car, so everyone’s been targeting the top of the market with expensive EVs.

    The good news is, battery prices are continuing to plummet each year. When you have $2,000 batteries, $12,000 cars are doable.

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      8 months ago

      Bullshit. You can easily get a battery for less than $25,000. The Tesla model 3 is a 50KWh pack and is $14000 to replace and likely costs way less to make.

      If you were really skilled you could buy 50KWh worth of cells for less than $10000.

      The reason the batteries are more is because you have SUVs and Trucks that need twice the amount of cells for about the same range because they’re not aerodynamic