Soldato
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lol a brilliant program however am not sure the point stands here. One of my old cars I sold after it blew its 2nd turbo and was on its 2nd engine after barely more than 100,000 miles. thankfully this was worse than usual. Undoubtedly there will be EV battery horror stories like this as well.I hear that Trigger still has his original broom as well.
but it was still the same car.
if modern EV batteries can reliably cover over 250,000 miles before needing replacement i suspect in all but the most edge case scenarios that will basically mean it will last the life of the car. One would expect a new battery today would be more robust than one 10 years ago as well.
An EV battery doesnt have to last forever....... it just has to last for the life of the car in the majority of cases.
I believe they can do that already, which is why i bought one. IF i believed clarkeson et al that the battery would fail well in the life of the car then i wouldnt have.
none of that negates the fact that there needs to be way more options with what to do with EV batteries, so i am with the naysayers there.
not least because its a 2 way thing as well. As much as i want to be able to have a 10 year old car which is still in good shape, but has a couple of crap cells in it, i want to be able to swap the faulty cells out in a cost effective manner.
but from the other side of that............ if i have a clapped out banger of a car which i want rid of........ if it has a still healthy battery in there i want to be able to get some of the value back from that as well and have the option to sell to a reclaimer for a fair price.
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