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Personally its because there was a lot of question mark hanging over second hand EVs for ages. If i buy this car for £10k will it need a new 8k battery in 18 mo
by swarnie 2y ago
Personally its because there was a lot of question mark hanging over second hand EVs for ages. If i buy this car for £10k will it need a new 8k battery in 18 months?
I don't know if this is still accurate but it was top of my mind 5 years ago when i last changed one of our cars. Ill consider EVs again next year when one is due for replacement at which point ill need to total up the additional home infrastructure in the price.
- pornel 2y agoThere's over a decade of real-world data available from Tesla and Leaf, and the batteries are very long-lived: they degrade about 1%-2% per year with a good battery management system, and around 3% per year with Leaf's weaksauce one. Additionally, batteries are getting cheaper and more energy dense, so when it's time to replace them, you'll probably get an upgrade for cheaper. Leaf started with 24kWh batteries, and now you get 40kWh for the same price, and a 64kWh upgrade option. People often extrapolate from their experience with cell phone batteries, but these "lithium" and those "lithium" batteries are very different. There are different chemistries, different conditioning with active cooling/heating, different rates of discharge, and a big difference in redundancy when you have 1 cell vs 7000 of them.
- thebruce87m 2y agoMany of them come with generous battery warranties. Tesla has 8 years: https://www.tesla.com/en_gb/support/vehicle-warranty https://www.tesla.com/en_gb/support/vehicle-warranty