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Originally Posted by redpoint5
The battery problems are exactly as bad as represented. It takes a lot of "saving" to make up for the extra $12,000 expense of the fuel tank, something that costs like $100 on a regular ICE vehicle.
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I feel compelled to reject that as a false equivalence, as the battery on an EV is part of a power delivery system, not just a place to store energy. And relative to an ICE which may internally destroy itself at any given time, electric motors are largely bulletproof for decades and potentially 7 digit mileage (Hard to say if the latter will hold true however for consumer vehicles.) So cherry-picking that out on a cost basis just isn't a realistic comparison.