One reason I don’t plan to sell my EV is that it has a lifetime warranty on the battery which is not transferable. The other is that Hyundai recalled several thousand of them for a battery defect and I got a brand new battery at 25000 miles. I have 45000 miles on the car but only 20000 miles on the battery. Plus I drive it around town about 1000 miles a month and charge at work for 6 dollars a month. I don’t charge at home. I don’t need oil or brakes and I don’t have to pay for gas. Other than the 8 hours each week that it takes to charge I don’t need to do much of anything to the car. Plus the mild weather in California means I don’t have the extreme weather issues.
When that battery is NLA then you warranty will end soon enough.
That was a very wise decision on your part. The batteries do not last forever especially if you frequently charge it beyond 80% or discharge it to less than 20%. Without the warranty by the time your battery has gone tits up it would likely not be worth replacing.
There are use cases that make sense. The problem we have is that Democrats are using the EPA to jam them down everyone’s throat, free market be damned, in what will become a central planning nightmare if allowed to continue.
You’re the niche buyer.
Good for you.
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$6 per month? Subsidized electricity.
Your car still has brake pads and they need to get changed out. They run off electricity but have hydraulic back up. The transmission,though different, i.e gearbox with single gear although some have 2 or 3 still uses a transmission fluid. You also have a cooling system for your battery. Any mechanical moving parts require lubrication. They maybe sealed but require lubrication.
Only $6.00 a month to charge your EV is pure BS.
Your battery warranty is not lifetime either it’s 10 years 100k and requires you do a lot in order for that to warrantied.
https://caredge.com/guides/ev-battery-warranties
“Plus the mild weather in California means I don’t have the extreme weather issues.”
Good for you. Parachutes work well for paratroopers, not so much for submariners. Your ideal situation is not shared by everyone and EV’s don’t make sense for a large section of the population yet somehow they are being really pushed like they do.
At 10-15 cents/KV-Hr and assumming 220v charger, it probably costs $6/hr to charge your toy. No way a one hour charge per month gives your toy a 1,000 mile range!! LOL....
Out and out lie. Defies the laws of physics.
Assuming we used the Southern California Edison time-of-use Prime rate plan, a 2022 Ford Mustang Mach-E RWD with the extended battery, which is rated at 35 kWh/100 miles, would cost as little as $3.85 for 50 miles’ worth of power if home charging started at 11 p.m. Or it could cost nearly three times as much, $9.45, if the car charged during peak hours.
Good for you!
But that $hit won’t fly in the far northeast with the salted roads, sub-zero temps (only millionaries can afford to build a garage up here - cars stay out in the elements year round), and no employers are going to let you charge your car at their expense (unless you can sneek a 100’ extension cord around the back of the building).
The southern states where you putz around locally is fine, but when it is 20+ miles to the nearest store and you need to travel 75+ miles one way to work ... not so much.
Sounds to me that you have
zero intentions of visiting
the grandkids in Minnesota,
for Christmas..../s