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SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoThey’ve already came out and said that they didn’t have enough material for enough batteries for everyone in the US to have an electric car
17 million last year, 60 million in total globally. Where do you get your information.
The power grids can’t support everyone having an electric car.
sure they can. They support everyone having a toaster or a dryer.
The batteries usually go bad around 10-15 years old
How many ICE cars make it to 400,000 miles?
prevents people from wanting to buy one because it costs more to replace the battery than most vehicles cost to replace the engine and the engine
This has been true in ICE for decades.
nolikeymachine@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Lmaooo your logic is so broken. The new new electric vehicle batteries are only rated for 15-20 years at the most. Not including the reduced lifespan that they have already been proven to have in the cold northern states and the issues that salty roads introduce to that. But just for arguments sake the average American drives 13,500 miles a year. Which comes to just over 200,000 miles in 15 years and 270,000 miles in 20 years. And that’s IF you get the maximum life. I know PLENTY of people who have well over 300,000 miles on their gas vehicles and diesels last even longer. And the batteries cost around $10,000 on average but the range is $5,000 to $20,000. Engines range from $3,000 to $7,000 new and you have options for used or remanufactured for cheaper (which you can’t do for batteries). And you can’t literally just Google it, our electrical grids CANNOT currently support everyone having an electric car. Hell California can’t even make it through the summer without grid outages due to overuse just from air conditioning lmao. If you just Google it you will find out that they have already done studies that show we need to put around 2 trillion to 4 trillion dollars into our electrical infrastructure (neighborhood transformers and house electrical panels) and main transmission grid systems in order to support everyone switching to electric vehicles. And it would take a few decades to get it all completely done. But realistically given we had the funding already setup we could likely have most people ready to go in about 15 -20 years and everyone done by 30 years. But we don’t so it’ll be at least 30. And once more and more people get electric vehicles and they improve designs and improve batteries, then it’ll likely take less power and batteries will likely be cheaper and easier to make. And once all of that happens, then gas powered vehicles will start to completely fade away. But they’ll still be the better option (for the general population) until all of those things happen