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Originally Posted by Hersbird
So Yes it is the battery cost, but is $869 per kWh a fair price in the modern battery market or a gouge on Ford's part knowing the customer gets a $7500 or more tax credit?
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Isn't the price for
anything as an OEM replacement part much higher than the actual cost? And AFAIK nobody gets a tax credit for purchasing a replacement battery - though of course almost any replacement should come under warranty, so the listed price is purely notional. I'd even suspect it's much higher than cost to keep people from buying one to use in their EV conversions :-)
If you do some searching on current battery prices, you find upwards of $200/KWh, so a reasonably sized battery is going to run upwards of $20K.
As far as 'fair' prices, the only way to determine a fair price is what a willing buyer will pay a willing seller. I don't think anyone is forcing people to buy EVs at their current prices, so those prices are fair, by definition.
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Originally Posted by cowmeat
I've been thinking of getting a Volt myself for the four doors it has, but it's going to be real hard to walk away from the 700 mile sub-ten gallon tanks the Insight gives me!
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Yeah, and why would I spend a bunch of money to replace a car that's still perfectly functional (and has 2 seats instead of 4!) with something that offers only marginal improvement in mpg?