Comment on World EV Sales Now Equal 18% Of World Auto Sales
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 year agoHow will people handle needing to pay a car’s price to replace the battery.
Cars aren’t usually worth much when they have 250,000 to 300,000 miles on the odometer. That’s how long a properly designed modern battery will last until wear and tear means its not usable anymore.
Maalus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But you can still buy a 20 year old car with 250k on it for really cheap and drive it for the next 10 years till it completely craps itself.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The last thing I would call a 250k mile car driven for another 10 years is “cheap”. Large expensive things will be breaking left and right.
Maalus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, but people with no choice buy them and ride them till they break. And some take a while to break.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In that situation they’d likely be better served with a 250k mile EV and whatever range it has left or purchase of a subpar pack from a wrecked EV of the same model to keep it on the road. EV just have so many fewer moving parts. The moving parts are what wear out over time.