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Apparently(and this is just hearsay so treat it with a grain of salt) the replacement battery for one of these is about 10k euro, so that alone explains a big c

Apparently(and this is just hearsay so treat it with a grain of salt) the replacement battery for one of these is about 10k euro, so that alone explains a big chunk of difference in price between the e-Up and its petrol brother. Batteries are just expensive and there's no good way around it. (on the plus side, the battery capacity of the e-Up has literally DOUBLED few years back, from 18kWh to 36kWh, and yet the price remained the same - so the market is producing cheaper - per kWh - batteries)

logifail 4y ago
> Batteries are just expensive and there's no good way around it Yup, which means EVs in turn are also just expensive, and there's no way around it. Yet. It's relatively easy for today's politicians to make policy such as effectively banning the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2035, as the EU has done. Will that policy actually stick if EV prices don't fall significantly over the next 12 years? Even when the politicians of 2030-something start worrying about getting re-elected?