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Originally Posted by jamesqf
But then you wind up with expensive, incompatible batteries, which will probably wind up being unavailable or prohibitively expensive in a decade.
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That's a concern I have. What of the future?
Comparing to ICE cars you have two different trains of thought. With older cars, ya, the engines would konk out every 50,000 miles or so. But those engines were and are rather inexpensive to rebuild. I remember my father rebuilding engines and transmissions on several occasions. With newer cars it seems they are a lot more difficult and expensive to rebuild or even R&R. But at least they last longer.
What of EV batteries? Right now they seem to have short lived lives and cost a lot of money, the worst of both scenarios.