This battery would have to be recycled for less than $115 in order to be cheaper than $4.00/gallon gasoline, as brand new, 2014 model, 35 mpg crapboxes can be purchased all day for $15K at EVERY car dealership.
Even my 420 HP mustang daily driver gets 23mpg, so my fuel cost for 1000 miles with $4 gallon gas is less than $175.
The math is tough to justify an electric car. Maybe Common Core math will teach kids that in “ends justifies the means math” that the TRUE COST of 1000 miles in a 35 mpg gas car is not $115, but really $1,500... so this battery is a bargain!
I also like how they refer to it as “zero emissions”. Yeah right.
If people think their electric cars are “zero emission” they are NIMBY idiots.
“This battery would have to be recycled for less than $115 in order to be cheaper than $4.00/gallon gasoline, as brand new, 2014 model, 35 mpg crapboxes can be purchased all day for $15K at EVERY car dealership.
Even my 420 HP mustang daily driver gets 23mpg, so my fuel cost for 1000 miles with $4 gallon gas is less than $175.
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This EV would not need your $8000 gas engine. Factor that into the cost. (Actually, their targeted market would be hybrids)
“This battery would have to be recycled for less than $115 “
I did some reading and it appears that it may be less than $115 per cycle. I haven’t found exact evaluation numbers but the design target is to make it less than the gasoline used by a hybrid engine.