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Right, the $15k car buyer is buying used and the used EV story is complicated depending on what price point you need to hit because you'll be close to the batte
by Spivak 3y ago
Right, the $15k car buyer is buying used and the used EV story is complicated depending on what price point you need to hit because you'll be close to the battery warranty running out (if you're not in CA) and that replacement will be almost the cost of the whole car. It's really hard to compete with the "buy a mass-market ICE Honda/Toyota at 60-80k and drive it to 250k." At any other time I would argue that it's probably a wash or in favor of the EV with repairs but they're so reliable that you're hard pressed to have your first major issue sub 200k.
Edit: Ya know I just went searching in my area and you get get some 30k mile 2020+ Bolts in the $15k price point. But I'm also a little suspicious because literally any other EV at that mileage is more than double so I want to know what's up with the bolt.
- toomuchtodo 3y agohttps://www.recurrentauto.com/research/how-long-do-ev-batteries-last https://www.recurrentauto.com/research/how-long-do-ev-batter... https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/advice/how-long-do-ev-batteries-last https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/advice/how-long-do-ev-ba...
- Spivak 3y agoFrom your own link: > In general, you can expect the lifespan of an EV's battery pack to be at least 10 years or 100,000 miles. Most will go much longer and further if you treat them right. So I get what you're saying but when you're going to drive a car that will spend most of its life under your care at >100k miles the calculus gets a little different. And I really get the impression on HN that people are just unaware of how many people are driving old high mileage cars. My friends who would self describe as upper-middle class are driving a 2012 Impreza and a 2014 Civic.
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