• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 months ago

    My gas car never has issues, and your diesel wouldn’t either if you plugged in the block heater. I’m a big fan of “tech” and like innovative and new stuff and all that, but I also think all electrics are a huge waste right now. Small inner city all electrics with like a 75 mile range is not bad, but the 200+ mile ones are just asking for problems. Batteries are too heavy, too big, and just don’t last long enough. Needing a new $20,000 battery to make a 15 year old car work again is never a good idea. Here in the next 5 years (now that electrics are about to age out) people are really going to start seeing the issue.

    I’m sticking to gas or hybrids for now. Cheaper to keep the older ones on the roads. Current lithium batts just aren’t high enough on their cycle count.

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      10 months ago

      This moron, again with the false claims. Hey! Stop being a clown!

      • your local not-afraid-of-your-bullshit electrical engineer
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        10 months ago

        I like how I take up enough head space in your mind that you always recognize my name and comments. I’ve never remembered yours and you aren’t even an afterthought to me. Lol

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          I recognize you out of pity and contempt. At least one of us has a working memory, and perhaps that’s why I tend to be living in reality 🤷

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      10 months ago

      The 15 years to dead battery figure you mention is wildly out of proportion.

      Everything points to current batteries degrading less than 5% over 10 years… So even at 15 or 20 years there would still be plenty of battery health left.