My GF and I were considering buying the new Lexus EV RZ450e. She currently drives a Lexus hybrid. Neither of us are environmentalists at all, the sole purpose of the EV was to have lower cost-per-mile as a commuter car & bc I didn't want her to get a Tesla.
But after I did more research - the huge battery pack in EVs does NOT last over long timeframes. You can still drive a ICE car that is 20 years old, no problem. But an EV isn't going to last because the battery degrades over time. And replacing the battery is so expensive it isn't realistic to do on an old, depreciated car anyway.
Even if you don't keep your car 10+ years, this still matters because it means EVs will depreciate far more aggressively than ICE cars, because the buyer knows that he's buying limited battery life.
She also got in an accident in her hybrid and what would have been maybe a $2k repair turned into an $8-9k repair, and on top of that a lot of repair shops wouldn't even touch it out of fear of dealing with the battery.
First car I owned wasn't work fixing at 140k. Rust panels on the sides, alignment that couldn't be fixed so you had to drive with the wheel turned to one side, and like 6 other things wrong with it.
I bought a Prius...and the battery pack is still good 14 years later...I think it's at 250k now?
I don't really trust "research" on this stuff because it's typically a whole lot of crap. None of the b.s.ing on about the Prius turned out to be true. There's a couple of things I dislike about it...none of those things were what the online crowd was whining on about though. Literally all the things they said were bad about it weren't true, and all the things that actually were bad on it weren't mentioned online.
My GF and I were considering buying the new Lexus EV RZ450e. She currently drives a Lexus hybrid. Neither of us are environmentalists at all, the sole purpose of the EV was to have lower cost-per-mile as a commuter car & bc I didn't want her to get a Tesla.
But after I did more research - the huge battery pack in EVs does NOT last over long timeframes. You can still drive a ICE car that is 20 years old, no problem. But an EV isn't going to last because the battery degrades over time. And replacing the battery is so expensive it isn't realistic to do on an old, depreciated car anyway.
Even if you don't keep your car 10+ years, this still matters because it means EVs will depreciate far more aggressively than ICE cars, because the buyer knows that he's buying limited battery life.
She also got in an accident in her hybrid and what would have been maybe a $2k repair turned into an $8-9k repair, and on top of that a lot of repair shops wouldn't even touch it out of fear of dealing with the battery.
First car I owned wasn't work fixing at 140k. Rust panels on the sides, alignment that couldn't be fixed so you had to drive with the wheel turned to one side, and like 6 other things wrong with it.
I bought a Prius...and the battery pack is still good 14 years later...I think it's at 250k now?
I don't really trust "research" on this stuff because it's typically a whole lot of crap. None of the b.s.ing on about the Prius turned out to be true. There's a couple of things I dislike about it...none of those things were what the online crowd was whining on about though. Literally all the things they said were bad about it weren't true, and all the things that actually were bad on it weren't mentioned online.