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It isn't that hard to test if it is toast though. The rest of the drive train should be much more robust than an ICE. Much fewer parts and less to go wrong. I c
by salty_biscuits 7y ago
It isn't that hard to test if it is toast though. The rest of the drive train should be much more robust than an ICE. Much fewer parts and less to go wrong. I can't see a battery being any more expensive to replace than say a diesel engine.
- rapsey 7y agoA diesel engine will do an order of magnitude more miles.
- salty_biscuits 7y ago1000 cycles at 400km per charge. Hmmm... I don't think that is an order of magnitude
- jillesvangurp 7y agoNot without a lot of very expensive maintenance. The cost of that easily adds up to battery replacements/servicing. Batteries are expensive now but will drop in price over time as economies of scale kick in and current technology gets replaced by any of the better things currently stuck in the R&D stages of the many startups working on this. Diesel engines are not getting cheaper/better by a similar rate. Worse, investments in that are at this point being shelved in favor of EV investments. Diesels right now are about as good as they will ever be.