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Old 01-11-2012, 04:03 AM   #41 (permalink)
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Miles electric has a cost calculator that factors in the cost of the battery based on an estimate of it's life, if your comparing operating cost shouldn't that be a part of it.
Electric cars (not hybrids) have fewer parts than a fuel burning car, so I imagine that the price of a battery in ~10 years time would be comparable or less than the servicing and part replacement requirements of a normal car.

Hybrids are another story as they have all the normal ICE parts to fail as well as the electric bits. Prii seem to have shown that it's largely a non-issue (to my understanding anyway), but as each manufacturer is using different approaches to hybrids, each will have to prove its own reliability.

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