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Holy Shit! That coolant is expensive.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Did you see that outrageous battery fee?
For this new battery, go dig up some more mountains where poor people are exposed to all sort of physical and chemical dangers using all sorts of petroleum-based products to do it just so you can have your "green" vehicle that in addition to all of this destruction uses an external combustion engine to generate the power to make your vehicle go down the road; nevermind that the power grid in your area can't handle the load.
Leave it to wokies to purchase a virtue signal with no thought to maintenance or repair costs. ReeeEeee
It will last forever. It's electric! LOL
Yes, and they are charged with electric fairy dust that magically comes out of the socket in their garage.
I'm impressed with the mileage! I know someone with a Volt who just replaced her battery at 40,000 miles (about 4 years old). Don't know what she paid, though.
I think they are covered 8 years/100k miles
Then why is this person paying 30 grand when the vehicle has 70k miles on it?
That’s just an estimate, which is then submitted to the warranty claims department or 3rd party warranty company, and they’ll decide whether their claim is covered under the warranty or not and pay it to the dealership. Now, why that battery is $27k, I haven’t a clue. I know Nissan Leaf batteries are in the $6k range.
Maybe this Volt is getting its third battery?
It was at this point, he knew he had fucked up. (you know the voice)
Seriously, eat shit greentard !
$1.5 for disposing the toxic cancerous battery…
A bargain by any stretch of the imagination. 😋
I loved both of the volts I leased.. The gen 2 got great gas mileage, almost 40mpg when run on the generator. I wonder how much better the mpg would be if the battery pack was removed outright.
I am thinking about getting a Ford Maverick pickup. The hybrid gets 40mph (city driving)
What I really like about it is the size. It is a regular car (think Rav4 or Ford Escape) with a pick up bed. We saw one and My wife and I agreed it would be great.
My wife liking a pickup, Awesome! Now if I can only get one at MSRP which my local dealer says he will honor I will be all set. The 2023 Maverick won't be available to buy until mid September.
MSRP starts at about $21k
I'll check it out
Looked up the vin. It’s a 2012. And for a 2012- that mileage is super low.
Options-
Buy aftermarket batteries
Add diesel or gasoline generator
Or be completely based, de-electrify the whole car, install small block Chevy
If i had the money i would take something like a old tesla with dodgy batteries and strap on to the roof a "wood gas generator" which is a device that turns burning wood and uses the gases produced to run an internal combustion engine, they used them during war time for tractors and such when fuel was in short supply.
so you would have a gasoline generator that runs of the fumes of burning wood that way you could wood fire your tesla and use the generator to power/charge the tesla you would need a pretty big generator for ludicrous mode though haha But imagine how funny it would be plus you could charge your tesla when out in the countryside by chopping down trees :) the leftys would hate it so much but you can tell them it uses renewable energy cause trees grow kek
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle#Wartime_production
Due to gasoline shortages late in the war, a few "Holzbrenner" Beetles were built, which were fueled with logs of wood. The logs were converted into combustible gases using pyrolysis gas producers located under the front hood, so the car could retain its carbureted Otto engine.
Still, I would love to drive a Tesla in the carpool lane towing a diesel generator rolling coal🤣😂
And the clock is only on 70k. Wow.
It wouldn't be so bad if the dealer would toss in the state battery fee. That $1.50 is the killer. :)
Had to replace the engine in my Volvo (timing belt issue). Cost me an arm and a leg.
There are 100s of good arguments against EVs, the odd battery replacements (often covered by insurance or the manufacturer) is not one of them.
Could of at least thrown the coolant in for free. Jeesh- how much are one of those cars new?
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if they got 25 MPG at $4/gal = a little over $10k. What a total and complete ripoff.
Not in northern States.
It depends on the battery chemistry used some last longer or can take more charge cycles for example but the age of the battery is going to be the most important thing.
One thing that you would have to be wary of with a used EV is the range it shows on the dash when fully charged may not be the real range as with each of the battery packs they can only tell how charged it is by voltage and not the actual capacity which would have to be checked either by doing a range check of the car your going to buy by driving it the stated range and seeing what it really is or by taking the packs out and doing a complete charge and discharge test on the packs by using a battery analyzer to drain the battery pack at different rates to determine how much real capacity is left.
People might be selling used packs cheap but they would have to be checked for actual capacity. Now if your only using it to do short trips you might not notice for a while and may be okay.
So to know the history of a used battery pack your going to need to know what chemistry it is (tesla uses 3 different types depending on usage) so you can work out the likely shelf life, number of charge discharge cycles the cells can take and also how hard the pack was used or was it used in a hot climate as all will effect the performance of the battery pack, then also a real capacity check done with a battery analyzer which logs the data.
The new standard range Tesla battery packs are lithium ion phosphate which is also what they use in there powerwall packs for the home, they tend to be pretty good with a long shelf life time iirc like 10years and 2750-9000 charge cycles. The other two chemistry's tesla uses have the following charge cycles. 250 to 1500 charge cycles for NCA cells 200 to 2500 charge cycles for NMC cells Not sure what the shelf life of these two are but has to be less than 10 and normal lithium ion are something like 3-6years but these could be better than that.
So knowing what the chemistry is important as it could make a big difference, i would think age would be a bigger concern as if the standard range Tesla is like 300miles the amount of cycles means the lithium ion phosphate battery theoretical mileage would be pretty large 825k to 2.7mil miles. But that is theoretical as many things will reduce that and the shelf life will be the biggest problem.
I think there will be a need for independent battery checkers that offer a warranty who can be trusted otherwise it will be a crap shoot on what you will get and then there will be people faking the tests somehow telling you its only a couple of years old when its much older etc.
I feel like a lot of people will get burnt buying old EV's, also because of the battery's i feel like they will end up like iphones and meant to be thrown away and replaced with new ones rather than the old gasoline and diesels of old which can be kept running a lot longer for less money.
Sorry for the wall of text haha, i got reading into the batteries and thought i should not waste what i read lol.