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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I like the idea of having the option to stop and smell the flowers, not the imposition to do so.
People on the Bolt forum like to put slow charging in the list of positive attributes because one gets to smell the flowers. Hogwash, that means walking is superior to an EV because it's even slower. The point of vehicles is that they make travel faster.
I couldn't come out with a new airplane and tell the airlines they are gonna love it because it goes slower and has a fraction of the range of their current ones.
Owning a VW is great because it gives one the opportunity to learn how to disassemble their entire vehicle just to change spark plugs, and experience using non-standard tools.
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Exactly! It's nice to stop and smell the flowers. But not always, like when you're in the middle of a snowstorm.
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Originally Posted by Hersbird
I don't think EV batteries are going to get replaced on the used car market. They will just go 70, to 60, to even just 40% and people will live with whatever. Nobody is going to drop $20,000 to make a Tesla battery back to 100% on a 15 year old car. Just buy a new one if you need that range and somebody who can get along just fine with 100 miles will drive that Tesla until it gets in a fender bender and is totaled.
There is also no room in battery production to be swapping out 15 year old batteries. They will for a long time going forward need new batteries all to go into new cars. The batteries is the bottleneck.
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The thing that bothers me is that car prices will likely be associated with range in all EV's. If you want a cheap EV, don't expect to go far, regardless if it's a new neighborhood electric vehicle (if those ever come back) or an old Tesla, Bolt or other.
This is different than ICEV's in which range isn't an issue for anyone. I've bought cheap cars and driven trips that were thousands of miles. One example was a $250 Mazda 323 that I drove to Puerto Vallarta and back.