The EV cult is straight up delusional, at this point.
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No he's being rhetorical. Battery degradation sucks though. My iPhone on 85% of its original life feels like it's 50%.
We have no reason to believe the “battery health” reported to us by the operating systems installed on our phones. Cell phone makers have every reason to concoct utterly retarded metrics that wildly understate performance loss over time. As you say, an “85%” battery feels like a 50% battery - probably because it is actually the latter.
Depends on the EV. I owned a Leaf. I kept it in a temperate climate and always charged properly to specs, and before 70k miles it was down to about 40% range.
I have zero doubt it'll be unusable before it could have ever hit 150k.
A Leaf, eh?
There was a court case here in Australia. Nissan was selling a replacement (discounted) battery for more than the resale price of the car. This was in spite of there being a serious design fault in the early Leaf batteries that seriously degraded their lifespan.
Early Leaf models had batteries that didn't have an active cooling system, that is a fluid pump and radiator. The heat issues drastically shortened the battery life.
Holy shit. That’s insane. And I’ve considered getting one.
I guess you have to budget for a new battery every 5-10 years? EV companies will need to step up and make that something like 10k with financing or most people will bail.
I assume so. I sold that shit for 80% of the price I paid for it after getting 7 years out of it. The used car market hasn't entirely realized how badly electric vehicles depreciate.