Posted on 08/31/2022 4:05:00 PM PDT by Signalman
In a case of highly charged sticker shock, a Florida Chevrolet dealer admits that it offered to replace the battery in a hybrid car for more than the vehicle is worth.
As reported by the website AutoEvolution, the case of the almost-$30,000 battery was being bandied about on social media for days, with some folks believing the tale and other relegating it to the pile of urban myths.
The story was based on a copy of an estimate for the battery of a 2012 Chevrolet Volt that was making the rounds. The Volt was a hybrid that was produced as Chevy was dabbling in the electric vehicle market. Its place in Chevrolet’s lineup has now been taken by the Bolt.
The estimate said that getting the battery would set the car’s owner back $26,853.99. Other costs brought the total bill to $29,842.15 — essentially $30,000.
According to the automotive site Edmunds, a 2012 Volt is estimated to go for between $7,999 and $17,590 these days.
Chevrolet advertises that its new Bolt starts at $25,000.
In the end, the truth about a used car came from a car dealer – in this case Roger Dean Chevrolet in Cape Coral, which prepared the estimate.
“This is an estimate for a 12 year old vehicle out of warranty and for a battery that is extremely hard to get, due to the older technology of the 12 year old vehicle,” the dealership posted on Facebook in an attempt to set the record straight.
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
That is not a mustang.
Biggest scam ever foisted on the motoring public. They get away with it because people are STUPID
Wait til you come to the end of your charge cycle. You bought a vehicle with absolutely no resale value - way to go Einstein
I’m missing something.... When I was in my teens, my brothers, friends and I and did a few engine swap outs, mostly to squeeze more power under the hood and some of those swap outs even involved ones where the engines and the car bodies were different manufacturers. Now things are simple... there is a battery, an electric motor and a body. Surely somebody can figure out what to swap around and jerry rig to make something work, no? What is so difficult about it... is it simply impossible to find any components? No electric cars in the auto wrecker yards yet? Are we headed for a day where cars are just thrown out when the batteries are done?
You don’t have a mustang either
I think the biggest challenge with your idea is software.
While the basics of battery cells and electric motor are fairly simple, these new vehicles have zillions of lines of computer code.
It will take some $eriou$ engineering to make parts compatible.
Can’t say it won’t happen, but it’s not like putting a 350 Chevy in a 32 Ford chassis.
“Wait til you see the Tesla’s at the end of their charge cycles a”
One guy has documented his world travels in a Tesla. On his third battery with over a million miles logged and still going strong.
“You don’t have a mustang either”
I have a 2019 Mustang sold by a Ford dealer with a 5-year powertrain warranty.
It did go to the Roush factory came out with over 700 hp.
See my homepage.
How much for a gas engine conversion?
Hopefully they are smart enough to stockpile the wood to keep warm in winter?
The part is less than $7,000.
I would be willing to replace the battery for $5,000 labor. I used to swap Prius drive batteries in about two hours.
“there is a battery, an electric motor and a body.”
And a computer. A computer, like ICE cars is tuned for general use, not for optimum performance.
We had an 88 Samurai. I would probably still be driving it if it hadn’t gotten wrecked.
Easiest car to maintain ever built. I changed the timing belt on ours in less than 30 minutes.
The part is less than $7,000.
I would be willing to replace the battery for $5,000 labor. I used to swap Prius drive batteries in about two hours.
right?
put in a rebuilt year ago last spring, it will outlast me...
2004 Toyota Tacoma; 258, 000 miles, original owner. Not only no major repairs ever, no signs of even slowing down. Usually at 120-150k or so, you start to hear a little valve tapping, or transmission lightly straining. My Tacoma still sounds perfect, and has never let me down. I paid 20,000 for it new, so I’ll happily put a new motor or transmission when the day comes. I’m guessing that could be around 400,000 miles. I also have a newer vehicle (2017 Tacoma), but it is just a back up, I also plan to keep the older one for the long haul.
8/25/22
“EV Owners Left Shocked After China Begins Shutting Down Charging Stations”
“...Second, exceptionally high temperatures are causing demand for electricity to skyrocket as citizens attempt to cool down.
Those two things combined are causing a huge problem for the electric vehicle industry.
Two popular automakers in the region, Tesla and Nio, have been forced to dial back power usage, Bloomberg reported.
Nio published notices on its mobile app informing drivers some of its battery-swapping stations in the city of Chengdu were taken offline because of “severe overload on the grid under the persisting high temperatures.”
https://www.westernjournal.com/ev-owners-left-shocked-china-begins-shutting-charging-stations/
On an earlier thread I posted of this company that "dropped" a modified battery into a Tesla S and got more power and a 732 mile range.
A for demo, Ford upped the Mach=E from 480 to 1400 hp and toured it as a drifter.
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