Posted on 03/08/2014 5:27:27 AM PST by Kaslin
Trade the “V” for a “D.”
It makes zero sense to ever replace a battery in a Volt, since after 8 years even if you wanted to keep it going it would make more sense to invest in a new generation of electric car anyway.
Obamamath says get the battery. Common sense says...
Only idiots would buy a Chevy volt, or any other Government motors car. Just like only idiots would buy 0bama/DemonratsCare
My guess is that by Year 6 or Year 7 battery life will be down significantly as it would in a cell phone or computer.
So instead of a 150 drive, you may only get 50 for each charge.
8 year life is disingenuous.
I remember when the Prius first came out in the late 90s.
Everyone talked about how the battery replacement cost would make them unsaleable after 5 or 6 years.
Yet I’ve never found anyone willing to give me their used Prius....
The engineering and tech foundation of an electric car has not changed in over 100 years.
No reason to predict a breakthrough in the next 8 years
Odds are the dealers don’t know because they never had to do it so they’re throwing out a lowball number for replacing a small part of the electric drivetrain versus replacing the whole thing.
So sickening. I was talking to a guy who got stuck behind a volt on his way home in the Texas hill country. It would not go over 45 mph on some hills on a two lane road and had traffic lined up behind for about one mile.
Only Dems are buying it. They deserve to get soaked.
Oh, and no one will know for the next 5 years the actual cost as the batteries are warrantied for 8 years and it’s only been about 3 years of sales so far.
If it only was doing 45mph it’s because the driver is a slowpoke. The car doesn’t have any issue with speed or acceleration. It can easily do 90mph without breaking a sweat.
“I remember when the Prius first came out in the late 90s.
Everyone talked about how the battery replacement cost would make them unsaleable after 5 or 6 years.
Yet I’ve never found anyone willing to give me their used Prius....”
I think the Prius is a well-designed, well-executed hybrid, and is the paradigm for this class of cars.
However, Prius owners are motivated by different things than other motorists: they are greenies, they feel edified by their low fossil fuel use, they are not particularly interested in driving, and they are looking for an appliance to get them from place to place.
A case in point: I have been friends with a typical liberal New England yuppie couple for many years.
He, a Liberal weenie lawyer who does not know one end of a screwdriver from the other, has a 2nd-generation Prius, which has served him very, very well. She, a physician from an old New England family, drove a VW Passat wagon, recently replaced with a Jetta TDI Sportwagen.
She HATES the Prius because of heavy steering, large turning circle (even the much larger Passat wagon had a much smaller turning circle), and harsh, uncomfortable ride.
The difference? Although by no means a motorhead, she ENJOYS driving and appreciates a well-handling car. She is unwilling to trade a fun but utilitarian vehicle for a boring one.
Do this simple test: as you drive around, see if any Prius drivers seem to be having a good time, as opposed to those driving any “driver’s car.”
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Some of the damage they have inflicted on us, our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, great great grandchildren, etc., etc.
Grandpa, why do we live as debt slaves?
DEFUND $ocialist collectives. DEPOPULATE $ocialist plunderers from the body politic.
Some obvious ones…
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Well, he did say it was a gray haired granny with a Wendy Davis for Gov. bumper sticker, so she was probably just trying to tick off people going home from work.
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