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I had a 2012 Leaf. It’s easier to do diligence in the purchase because you can get a battery report. Your ICE engine is much more of a guess.It all comes down to due diligence and not purchasing vehicles ( or anything ) on emotion. I have no sympathy for the buyers. I look at the article and go " there ya go - how much research did you do? If you don't understand find someone that is trustworthy and does. Oh wait there is no long term data then stay away. Common sense". I know as well as any one here that batteries do not last forever... If I would ever buy an EV (never) I would do that research to see if there is a specific test for the batteries just like they do with regular car batteries. If no test available - no buy....
I'm sure they have a lower cost per mile simply because of consumables like oil and grease, however, if someone has done a comparative study between an ICE and an electric using the same load carrying criteria I have yet to see it. Moving a ton of freight 20 miles for a gallon of gas seems pretty reasonable when it was 2.25 a gallon. Now that the price of gas has been artificially inflatedI had a 2012 Leaf. It’s easier to do diligence in the purchase because you can get a battery report. Your ICE engine is much more of a guess.
EVs have a low cost per mile too, but they defer all the maintenance costs to the one big smack at pack replacement.
Actually, they probably are. But maybe not how they think.Love how all the politically correct folks think they are doing the world a favor when buying an electric. Meanwhile, they have no clue about the environmental havoc that is being wreaked in 3rd world countries to get lithium.
Smug, vacuous idiots.
KazarS197 mentioned doing research before diving into something.......Somebody obviously did their homework, unloading that EV BEFORE that battery sh*t the bed.
It's an an instant gratification culture. None of these political correct donkeys see the entire full scope of EV - the mining and potential fallout, the electric grid that would not be able to handle a massive load, the increased fossil fuels that generate the electricity ( nuclear, solar and wind energy is just a small fraction), the process of recycling car batteries is not cost effective - check out the screen shot, lithium is finite - eventually the prices will skyrocket if they do not develop a cost effective recycling process ( that will never happen unless the batteries end up being a completely new construction) . For me personally I can not see the cost effectiveness for EV. 10-15 extra grand for a decent EV - that's 40-60,000 fuel miles at 20mpg at $5/gal. They say you save 8 grand in maintenance on an EV over 200,000 miles. The batteries are not lasting nearly that long- factor that in. The EV numbers are screwed. You can make studies look anyway you want depending on how selective you grab data. As for global warming are we creating the warming- ya some or are wei n the continued uptrend post ice age or both. They are cyclical. We did not see the hottest point post 2 ice ages ago....Love how all the politically correct folks think they are doing the world a favor when buying an electric. Meanwhile, they have no clue about the environmental havoc that is being wreaked in 3rd world countries to get lithium.
Smug, vacuous idiots.