Comment on Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer
Whirlybird@aussie.zone 4 weeks agoWhy on earth would I do that based on my post?
Comment on Labor will announce home battery rebate in “coming days,” says federal treasurer
Whirlybird@aussie.zone 4 weeks agoWhy on earth would I do that based on my post?
kudra@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
It was a facetious question. Clearly you wouldn’t with such misguided preconceptions.
Whirlybird@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
“Misguided preconceptions” lolololol
Any battery powered device that costs more to replace the battery than it costs to buy a new device is not a smart purchase when it’s close to or outside of its warranty period. The risk is not worth it.
It’s like you don’t even understand the point being made. If a EV battery was good for “the life of the car” (let’s say 350,000km or 20 years) then the warranty would be 350,000km or 20 years, wouldn’t it?
Answer me this - why is the battery warranty 8 years / 100,000km with 70% capacity (or whatever the km limit is, can’t remember off the top of my head)? Why don’t they guarantee it for 15 years? 20 years?
kudra@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
An incorrect assumption you have made is that batteries fail at a higher rate than major components on an ICE car. It’s a misunderstanding of the relative risk. Like how people hop in their car every day no worries but are afraid to fly.
Also is 100,000 miles or 160,000 km, not 100,000 km as the current warranty standard. And like any new technology, they really don’t know exactly how long they are going to last, so at this stage manufacturers are hedging their bets.
…com.au/…/new-data-reveals-the-battery-life-in-us…
theengineer.co.uk/…/assurances-on-battery-health-…
Whirlybird@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Again missing the point. My assumption wasn’t that batteries fail at a higher rate than “major components” on an ICE car - it was that if/when the battery fails it’s exponentially more expensive than any component failing on a ICE car.
If you buy a $50k ICE car and the entire engine dies out of warranty (which isn’t what happens generally, just parts of it would), a whole new engine will cost you probably $3k-$4k installed. Battery dies out of warranty on a $50k EV? ~$20k to replace……for a car that’s worth probably $10k by then.
Do you see the difference? One means you literally send the car to the wreckers and have no car, the other means you’re back on the road in the same car a week or 2 later.