Actually the Model 3 I drove yesterday with the long range battery has a factory 8 year or 120,000 mile warranty on the battery.
It may be that cars become like phones.
Use-up and toss.
Yeah, THAT'S great for the environment!
Actually the Model 3 I drove yesterday with the long range battery has a factory 8 year or 120,000 mile warranty on the battery.
It may be that cars become like phones.
Use-up and toss.
I will be surprised, knowing the state of battery technology, if that 8 years is truly achieved.
You still have a battery to replace in 5 years & it won't be cheap. I know several people that bought a Prius. When the battery died it was 5k for the battery + labor if your not a do it yourself type.
You still have a battery to replace in 5 years & it won't be cheap. I know several people that bought a Prius. When the battery died it was 5k for the battery + labor if your not a do it yourself type.
Not really.
The average American drives 13,400 miles a year.
That's around 1,100 miles a month.
In practicality that means do all your driving as you now do and plug it in at home ever 4-6 days overnight.
Each plug-in would cost about $6 here. I pump about $250 of gasoline monthly.
I know a lot of Tesla owners doing that today.
Admittedly an all electric car is a terrible choice if I want to drive to Amarillo tomorrow.
Tesla's new yet-to-arrive roadster is enormously powerful and will go 620 miles.
Mess with that math and imagine that, in 2022, Toyota produces an American-made all electric Civic that is faster than the current Civic and will go 1,200 miles on a $10 once-a-month.
That can and will be transformative.
The battery life isn't measured by years, it needs to be measured in cycles. Anything else is guessing.
It won't explode eitherAs a side note for the gearheads I went thru Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing yesterday. Very interesting and nice displays. The note is he is working on an electric powered dragster. It has already been over 200mph and he's shooting for 300. Going out this weekend for some testing. Looks just like a regular rear engine TF dragster except no motor, just a smooth body behind the driver
Plus the state is going to have to charge you by the mile to pay for the roads.Yes, really.
I was not referring to the average American. I was referring to me. You know nothing about my average driving habits. A four hour drive is nothing. Thirteen to sixteen hours is not uncommon.
And you are underestimating the cost of electricity to charge the batteries.
I will believe 620 miles of my style driving when I see it.
But those lithium batteries burn like a son of a gun, though...It won't explode either
...better than gas/diesel in every respect (performance, acceleration, torque, hp, etc). except 1 and it is a big one - inability to rapidly re-char
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It's an 800 volt DC system far more time efficient than Tesla's system and being placed presently.