Posted on 07/17/2022 9:31:51 PM PDT by Hojczyk
A family in Florida drove into a major problem after buying a used electric vehicle: the replacement battery for their dead car wound up costing more than the used car was purchased for
A family in Florida drove into a major problem after buying a used electric vehicle: the replacement battery for their dead car wound up costing more than the used car was purchased for
She told the news outlet that the car stopped running after taking it to a repair shop, and the family eventually found out that the car's battery would need to be replaced.
The problem? A battery for the electric car costs $14,000, according to the news outlet.
Siwinski's grandfather stepped in to help out with the car problems because her father passed away in June due to colon cancer.
The Ford dealership had advised us that we could replace the battery," said her grandfather, Ray Siwinski. "It would only cost $14,000."
However, the family found out that there weren't any batteries of that type available anymore because the Ford model is discontinued.
"Then we found out the batteries aren't even available," Siwinski said. "So it didn't matter. They could cost twice as much and we still couldn't get it."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...
ABC -> Always Be Charging.
Batteries are a necessary evil. The technology sucks and apparently will continue to do so.
Wind and Solar are total non starters, except on the periphery, until batteries [or Super Capacitors] become mature in a financial way for large energy storage.
Whereas discontinued models of non-electric vehicles can continue to be repaired and driven.
I really don’t see the problem here. The customer just follow the Joe Biden formula and get the dealer to lower his price on the battery. And just like that...problem solved!
An electric vehicle? The Second Law of Thermodynamics would like to have a word with you.
“There’s a sucker born every minute” P. T. Barnum
Electric cars are more of a status symbol then a practical way to get around.
Isn’t there some law that requires automakers to supply spare parts for ten years?
This has never happened in the history of the gasoline/diesel automobile.
You purchase a used gasoline/diesel vehicle then the engine and/or transmission dies shortly thereafter and it cost more to repair then the price of the ICEv.
That’s what the dems never want anyone to know
That’s just wonderful for the environment. An 8 year old toxic car with less than 70,000 miles is ready for the trash heap.
I might read the article if the site was not so busy trying to load adware and pop-ups that I cannot view the page.
In any case this is hardly news, more the routine as EV owners dump their obsolete low mileage junk on the unsuspecting.
Florida man bought an electric car, and now it bites him in the butt.
But they drove with pride….
I guess you didn’t read the article close enough there are no replacement batteries available at Any price they are SOL
try printer ink
more suicide economics in low-density populated Australia, with our Washington DC (Australia Capital Territory/ACT) leading the rest of the country over the EV cliff:
18 July: Daily Mail: One of Australia’s most important cities will BAN petrol cars completely from 2035
Canberra drivers will not be allowed to buy new petrol cars by 2035
The ACT plans to phase out sales of cars with combustion engines by that time
Zero Emissions Vehicle Strategy will see 90 per cent new electric cars by 2030
ACT will be first state or territory to commit to eliminating new fuel cars
By SAM MCPHEE
Shane Rattenbury, the Minister of Emissions Reduction, will outline a plan later this week that will see 90 per cent of new cars sold as electric by 2030. The policy will include a series of incentives and programs.
The Zero Emissions Vehicle Strategy will see no fuel-powered cars available for purchase beyond 2035 in landmark news for the country as it looks to address climate change - and for drivers in Canberra...
Greenpeace’s Lindsay Soutar said she hopes the ACT’s announcement will convince other states and territories to follow suit...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11023309/ACT-BAN-petrol-cars-completely-2035-EVs-electric-cars.html
It’s gonna take a while (cuz people tend to be kinda slow) but they’ll soon enough catch onto the fact that (unlike ICE vehicles) there is no economic advantage in purchasing used EV’s
Caveat Emptor
When electric has the same energy density per pound as gasoline, then you can call me.
CC
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