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@Mr_Spock512 Boss, I'm sorry, I can't make it into work today; I had half a charge on my EV battery but the temp dropped down to 10 F and I got stuck 5 miles from my house. I'm waiting for a truck to trailer it back to my house, but they're busy with all the other EV owners who ran out of battery as well
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Well, you're not supposed to charge them to 100% or you decrease the life of the battery. And don't get them under 20% because.... you guessed it, you decrease the life of the battery.
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@severnsea especially now that the climate is returning closer to "normal" for much of the US, which means much colder winter north of DC.
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@TeslaDawg Don't know about gas cars, it will be tough to replace long haul trucks right now, but EVs aren't the future; they are at best an interim technology until we can get something that doesn't rely on batteries.
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@lovefaith1714 The difference is that in an EV your focus is always on making sure you get it charged. Whether it's commuting or long distance traveled. And the reason is the long charge times. In a gas car, I can get a full fill in 3 minutes at a gas station if I forget to fill up the night before, and it has no effect on my day. Everything about an EV is watching your charge level before committing to a journey. Remembering to charge it most nights, and having the trip computer in your EV ensure you can get to a charging station with at least 20% charge left.
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@bradleyrex2968 New Teslas are sold directly from the company there is no mark-up by a dealer Which means Tesla gets the entire markup of the dealer and manufacturer. Did you think you're getting it cheaper by buying it direct? Bless your heart.
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@allgoo196 Why they can cut the prices of the car if not cutting the maker mark up? It tells you there's already a huge mark-up on them direct from Tesla.
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@st-ex8506 "Gas in my « area » is between $8 and 9 per USG" Your area is likely California, which is a mess. Bad government with huge deficits. So they tax the heck out of gas. In the rest of the country right now, it's about $3.20 gallon.
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If you listen to Scotty, you'll get the best advice he can provide. Bless his heart.
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@engineeringtheweirdguy2103 Warranty period are not based around longevity of something, they're based around two things: 1) What marketing needs to give consumers confidence in a product and 2) The point where consumer claims will be great than roughly 1% failure rates. When Hyundai came to the United States, their warranty was 7 years or 70,000 miles. Did that mean Hyundai had secret ways of making engines twice as good as anyone else? Since the Tesla battery warranty on the 3 is "8 years or 100,000 miles, whichever comes first, with minimum 70% retention of Battery capacity over the warranty period." Means that by your standard , a Tesla battery is expected to only have 70% of it's capacity after 8 years / 100,000 miles. Which means that after 100,000 or 8 years the 333 mile battery life will degrade to 233 miles. And BTW, Tesla doesn't replace with a brand new battery, they give you a refurbished battery. If that'sfalse, then your theory that a normal car engine warrantied for 3 years / 36,000 means they'll only make it to 36,000 miles is probably false as well. As to your idea that a refurbished short block will cost $12K to replace, you're off by a factor 3-4x. It's going to be closer to $4K.
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@paulmarc-aurele5508 if you took the subsidy away from oil and enhanced the grid with the capability to store energy Electric cars may be a decent substitute for gasoline cars someday, but it's not today, nor will it be for at least 2-3 decades. The subsidies being provided by taxpayers today aren't really helping the uptake of these cars, and they're actually harming EVs in that those subsidies are not forcing manufacturers to bring prices down faster. Incidentally, what subsidies in 2023 do you believe the oil industry is getting that no other industry gets?
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@zarroth Similar story, 26 year old Honda Accord still getting 28 MPG around town, no loss of range, I need to replace a sway bar bushing. And I upgraded the sound system to support Apple Carplay.
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@GDM22 Unfortunately gas prices have gone up significantly In historical terms and taking inflation into account, gas is very cheap now compared to where it was even 50 years ago.
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