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Originally Posted by Martinjlm
There was a study released last week that finds most EV batteries will outlive the car.
In any event, the batteries are warranted for 8 years 100,000 miles. This is longer than most people typically keep their cars.
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I completely agree that most people complaining about battery life are also the same people that buy a new car every 3-5 years anyway. That being said, I personally need to see way more studies done before I buy an electric car as my daily (will never get one as a fun car). I also won’t be buying any electric cars that are coming out in the next 5 years. I think electric cars are going to make a huge jump in improvement the 5 years after that when “batch 2” of electric cars come out. I’ve never been an early adopter of something and will never become one.
Something I currently find ridiculous with todays electric cars are when I am in my work parking lot I can hear the electric cars running with no one in them. I googled it and found out this is because the batteries get hot so they have to run their cooling systems even when they are not in use.
I find this completely ridiculous and believe a much better system will come out in the next 10 years.