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I can't wait for electric cars to become more common and competitive with conventional cars. I believe we're going to look back car's emissions the same way we
by ProfessorLayton 9y ago
I can't wait for electric cars to become more common and competitive with conventional cars. I believe we're going to look back car's emissions the same way we look back at the pre-sewage treatment days - when people used to dump their sewage out the window and into their drinking water!
That being said, we haven't reached the EOL for this first generation of electric cars, and figured out what happens next. Will replacement batteries cost a reasonable price? Or will manufacturers use this as an opportunity to try and get you to buy another car? Maybe you'll be able to replace the old battery with a new one from a 3rd party, or maybe you won't because its loaded with DRM.
Battery prices may go down for automakers, but perhaps consumers won't see a huge benefit. A replacement battery for my hybrid still runs a few thousand dollars and its only about 1 kilowatt-hour.
- aphextron 9y ago>Will replacement batteries cost a reasonable price? Or will manufacturers use this as an opportunity to try and get you to buy another car? The standard for now seems to be a lifetime warranty or similar on battery failure. Hyundai and Chevy have both done this to sell the Ioniq EV and Bolt EV respectively. Whether or not that holds as these cars truly go mainstream is doubtful though.
- greglindahl 9y agoSmall-battery all-electric cars (everything but Bolt/Tesla) have already had a lot of replacement batteries sold, so you could always look at that.
- sokoloff 9y ago> A replacement battery for my hybrid still runs a few thousand dollars and its only about 1 kilowatt. kilowatt-hour is the measure of energy storage capacity. kilowatt is a measure of power.
- cowmix 9y agoBatteries are almost 100% recyclable. Also, with the Volt at least, zero failures of the battery systems: http://insideevs.com/zero-first-generation-chevrolet-volt-battery-packs-replaced-due-general-capacity-degradation/ http://insideevs.com/zero-first-generation-chevrolet-volt-ba...
- greglindahl 9y agoThis isn't true, in the sense that recovering lithium from batteries is more expensive than mining new. The main reason for that is that lithium mining is extremely energy efficient and hence cheap.
- cowmix 9y agoThe lithium is a small percentage of the battery by weight.
- greglindahl 9y agoYes.
- legulere 9y ago> I believe we're going to look back car's emissions the same way we look back at the pre-sewage treatment days We will look back like that when we finally ban cars out of cities. Electric cars are less horrible than combustion cars, but are still horrible, because they are still cars.