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To: fireman15

Another issue is that if the batteries are stored with either too much or too little charge... they deteriorate quickly and the damage cannot be reversed. The most expensive component in an electric car is the battery. Once it is shot... in many cases the vehicle can be left with almost no value at all.


2 posted on 09/24/2023 10:26:44 PM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You'e Welcome.)
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To: fireman15
"Another issue is that if the batteries are stored with either too much or too little charge... they deteriorate quickly and the damage cannot be reversed. The most expensive component in an electric car is the battery. Once it is shot... in many cases the vehicle can be left with almost no value at all."

Makes me wonder what the vehicle and the vehicle battery self discharge rates are for the idle vehicle on the car lot.
7 posted on 09/24/2023 10:42:49 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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In the secondhand market for gasoline-powered vehicles, there’s a certain amount of rationality based on decades of experience driving such vehicles. For a gas-powered car that has say fewer than 30k miles, buyers might pay 70% of the new vehicle price. For a gas-powered car that has say more than 100k miles, buyers might pay 20% of the new vehicle price. This is all based on the buyers’ expectations of remaining useful life of the vehicle, maintenance/repair costs, etc. The EV industry is still so new that, to most buyers, estimated remaining useful life of an EV, maintenance/repair costs, etc. seem like a total wildcard. Can you get a 100k miles on an EV battery? If you can’t, how much will it cost to replace the battery? Not a ton of people thinking about these questions


11 posted on 09/24/2023 10:50:34 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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With a used gas car you can repair an engine but not an electric battery powered one. You would wonder if that electric car will explode in flames just sitting there in your garage or while driving. Bad enough worry when brand new!


23 posted on 09/25/2023 12:10:07 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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We simply live is stupid times.


34 posted on 09/25/2023 2:13:26 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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