• 1984@lemmy.today
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    11 months ago

    We don’t even know if the batteries on those things will worsen with time, like all other batteries do.

    You cant replace the battery on a EW, it’s cheaper to buy a new car.

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      11 months ago

      BEV/Hybrids have been around a while, there’s places you can buy individual cells when they die and it’s pretty easy to replace them. As time goes by, it should become no harder than going to the auto parts store like we do with regular ICEs. Unless they do shady stuff like making the batteries OEM only, like how Apple do with their batteries.

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      11 months ago

      We don’t even know if the batteries on those things will worsen with time, like all other batteries do.

      We absolutely do. Of course they degrade over time. But they last much monger than expected. Today they all come with 100,000mile 8-10year warranties.

      You cant replace the battery on a EW, it’s cheaper to buy a new car.

      Of course you can! They’re designed to be replaced. Most of them can be swapped out in about an hour at an equipped shop. And the cost (outside of warrantee) is typically about 20-30% the cost of the car. So it’s absolutely cheaper to replace the battery than buy new.

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        11 months ago

        Thank you, I didn’t know this. But paying 30% of the new car price after they expire sounds awful… But at least it’s possible.