Posted on 10/20/2023 10:10:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If you need to ask, you can’t afford it.
COST to manufacture?
Or PRICE to the consumer?
Big difference there. Are the EV vehicle makers gouging?
no doubt the cost is part of the reason for the following!
19 Oct: Business Insider: Most Americans still don’t want an electric car — and many EV buyers end up going back to gas
by Tim Levin
Most Americans don’t intend to buy an electric car in the near future, according to a new study.
People who do spring for an EV often buy a gas car as their next purchase, per another study...
In a recent poll conducted by Yahoo Finance and Ipsos, 57% of respondents said they were not likely to choose an EV when they buy their next car. (For the purposes of the study, EVs included fully electric cars and plug-in hybrids, which have a larger battery and more electric range than traditional hybrids.)
Of that majority, 36% said they were “not at all likely” to go electric, while 21% said they were “not too likely.”...
The biggest factors turning potential buyers off from EVs are the same worries that consistently pop up in these kinds of surveys: High vehicle cost, limited driving range, and insufficient charging infrastructure...
https://www.businessinsider.com/most-americans-dont-want-an-electric-car-2023-10
19 Oct: Drive.com: Study finds up to half of all electric-car owners considering a switch back to petrol power
by Ben Zachariah
According to a US study from S&P Global Mobility, first reported on by website Electrek, three-quarters of electric vehicle owners say that would buy another battery-powered car – but that number falls to about half once Tesla owners are removed from the statistics...
https://www.drive.com.au/news/study-finds-some-electric-car-owners-considering-a-switch-back-to-petrol-power/
Well said.
I wouldn’t be caught dead in an EV!
Regards,
I only drive golf carts on the golf course.
I only drive golf carts on the golf course.
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Due to creeping decrepit condition of this old body, I now drive a golf cart in the supermarket.
I did the Ecar test (Audi Etron) back right before Covid. Nice vehicle. At the end, I had two questions....what the total cost was for change-out and disposal (old battery). Dealer could state the battery cost and change-out (was supposed to require around 6 hours of mechanic time, from beginning to end). But on disposal...he couldn’t say because they had yet to reach one single situation where a change-out was required.
Then I asked if the customer himself could do the battery-swap-out....’no’ was the answer....if you wanted the warranty to continue.
For these reasons, and the continuing saga of the cost for electricity...I said ‘no’. I’ll refuse to ever buy one.
You can buy entire gas powered cars for less then the cost of a battery for an electric car that costs far more and has lousy range and takes forever to charge at high cost and is a major fire hazard and has no resale value.
Considering the weight of an EV battery, I don't see how anyone could do it themself. From what I read, the average weight is around 1,000 lbs. with a Tesla battery weighing up to 1,836 lbs.
They cost vastly more than they’re worth. Virtue signaling fools and just plain fools buy EVs despite the fact that they’re inferior technology compared to ICE vehicles.
What is the additional cost of disposing and/or recycling the battery?
Doesn’t look like recycling is an option, at least not in the UK yet...
“Has no resale value” says it all to me.
Insurance picks up the battery-exchange cost for EV fender-benders and spreads the expense/FRAUD to the rest of us!
It’s good to know how long they last too.
More expensive than replacing a transmission yet doesn’t last as long as that I believe.
can you buy refurbished batteries?
can they be recycled?
EVs are an evil scam designed to limit our freedoms to travel which makes it much easier for them to control us.
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