To add to it, there will also be companies that will buy the used battery, so the outset cost of a new one won’t be as painful.
For example, saw a good one that buys used car batteries and stacks them to make grid batteries.
Soon all electrical vehicles will have this same issue. You’ll be spending $10K every 7-10 years replacing the battery, but you won’t replace the vehicle itself.
50MYT@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Hypx@kbin.social 11 months ago
Which is why BEVs aren't the future.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If we’re updating the autodrive hardware that often, it might be worth it to up cycle every few generations. But one or two battery replacements might be worth it.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Model Y uses a structural battery pack that can’t be replaced. It forces the car to be recycled instead of repaired.
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s a consumer choice I suggest you don’t make.
jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, if electric cars keep being bought and public transportation stays the same.
Similar to hybrid costs it seems.
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think eventually electric vehicles will vehicles networked and operated by a public / private partnership where the need of a private vehicle is greatly diminished. You would just callup a vehicle for pickup and set the destination. Depending on the vehicle plan you subscribe to, the vehicle might have other passengers or be a private vehicle driven by a AI pilot. This program would offset the cost of batteries, remove the need for large parking lots, and make travel far more efficient.
Hypx@kbin.social 11 months ago
You basically just reinvented the bus/taxi...
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A modern take on it, yes. Someone far more people will use than buses or taxis.
DoomBot5@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s until the AI goes rogue and starts killing people. Then you have to go on a mission to retrieve all the rogue vehicles.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Until? The robotaxi in San Francisco already has victims
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hopefully they design a system which follows certain safety codes.
jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That does seem to be the possible route we are going toward!
Comma AI and AI Pilot are really interesting stuff!
Thank you for explaining!
YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Probably 50 years from now, but joining say the COSTCO CAR CLUB or something really makes sense. Groceries delivered to your home as well as other shopping also makes sense. I see a future where owning a car is no longer required.
AA5B@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They already past reliably more than ten years and should keep improving.
Why not? I just replaced my 7 year old vehicle with an EV. When I drove it again, it was really noticeable how the seats were worm, suspension loosened up, the rattles and squeaks, the rings and mars. The rest of the car ages too, plus technology keeps improving, so why would you expect people to keep EVs longer than they currently keep their vehicle?