[DeTomaso] No Pantera Content / Elect, Cars

[Ken Green]

 I wonder if we will ever hear the truth any more?  Listening to both sides, it sounds like one is in an alternative universe.  It seems like electric cars can be a good thing for people with a short enough commute to do it all electric, but will the saving on gas ever make up for the high initial cost?  I'm driving a car I bought 3 years old off a lease, and it has cost me a fraction of the cost of an EV, but I only commute about 50 miles a week. An EV would never be cost effective for me.

The batteries are claimed to last almost forever, but why do they last so long in a car, but not in anything else?  Is it the better management?  All the rechargeable lithium battery tools I have seem to have have specific charging strategies, and say the batteries don't like heat.  Does this apply to EVs, and if you live in Phoenix the batteries will have a short life?
A friends hybrid battery failed, and even a rebuilt battery was expensive.  With synthetic oil, my past and present cars seem to run for every, just a rebuilt transmission at 100,000 miles, half the $s of a rebuilt EV battery.

I don't know if this is a reliable souse, but maybe?
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/automotive/ev-battery-replacement-cost.html
   
 

On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 06:45:35 AM PST, B Hower via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:  
 
 FWIW  __  Electric Cars:
https://twitter.com/duty2warn/status/1593613166172246017?s=20&t=IIZKTuuaDlnpyt9OA4JVVw
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   I wonder if we will ever hear the truth any more?  Listening to both
   sides, it sounds like one is in an alternative universe.  It seems like
   electric cars can be a good thing for people with a short enough
   commute to do it all electric, but will the saving on gas ever make up
   for the high initial cost?  I'm driving a car I bought 3 years old off
   a lease, and it has cost me a fraction of the cost of an EV, but I only
   commute about 50 miles a week. An EV would never be cost effective for
   me.
   The batteries are claimed to last almost forever, but why do they last
   so long in a car, but not in anything else?  Is it the better
   management?  All the rechargeable lithium battery tools I have seem to
   have have specific charging strategies, and say the batteries don't
   like heat.  Does this apply to EVs, and if you live in Phoenix the
   batteries will have a short life?
   A friends hybrid battery failed, and even a rebuilt battery was
   expensive.  With synthetic oil, my past and present cars seem to run
   for every, just a rebuilt transmission at 100,000 miles, half the $s of
   a rebuilt EV battery.
   I don't know if this is a reliable souse, but maybe?
   [1]https://www.consumeraffairs.com/automotive/ev-battery-replacement-co
   st.html

   On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 06:45:35 AM PST, B Hower via DeTomaso
   <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
   FWIW  __  Electric Cars:
   [2]https://twitter.com/duty2warn/status/1593613166172246017?s=20&t=IIZK
   TuuaDlnpyt9OA4JVVw
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References

   1. https://www.consumeraffairs.com/automotive/ev-battery-replacement-cost.html
   2. https://twitter.com/duty2warn/status/1593613166172246017?s=20&t=IIZKTuuaDlnpyt9OA4JVVw
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