Florida family drives into electric car problem: a replacement battery costs more than vehicle itself

Fox Business ^ | July 18,2022 | Adam Sabes

[entropy12]

Why not a spring powered car? I had toy cars which ran great by winding the spring

[PCPOET7]

in a few years if not already the big scam will be reselling electric cars with fake new batteries

[Celtic Conservative]

Ten years? Pfft.
I had a ‘55 chevy for awhile. Some parts were specialty. But a suprising amount were still available on the shelves at NAPA. And I only got rid of it 4 years ago. I don’t think you will ever be able to say that about electrics.

CC

[Celtic Conservative]

I’m certain that it’s already happened. And the “made out of cardboard” Chinese knockoff factories are warming up in the on-deck circle...

CC

[Impala64ssa]

discontinued models of non-electric vehicles can continue to be repaired and driven.
I've had the ball joints replaced and the old Powerglide trans rebuilt on my 64 Chevy and the parts are still readily available. The oil and air filters are usually in stock at my freindly neighborhood O'Reilly's and Advance. Even Wally World carries them.

[from occupied ga]

Stupid sh!ts bought a battery powered car. No sympathy for them at all. Likewise no sympathy for the Texas dummies who bought Teslas and are now being told only to charge them at certain times. Battery cars are a scam to suck in fools who believe that fossil fuels are going to destroy the planet, fools who want to be “cool”, fools who think that they’re cheaper to operate than ICE vehicles, etc. BTW battery cars are mostly coal powered.

[Paladin2]

Try adding Ghostery and NoScripts....

[alstewartfan]

Suckers!

[Paladin2]

GM 350s have no shortage of support.

[As well they should...]

[Paladin2]

“..a spring powered car?””

Both those and very high speed flywheel vehicles have had prototypes built and tested.

Performance was underwhelming.

[ManardG]

The dealership is not required to stock the parts but the manufacturer is obligated to have parts for 10 years after they discontinue a model, and then after that if it was not a popular model they are not required.

[Paladin2]

Buy a trailer with a petro fuel powered generator connected to some power center ilo the current dead battery.

Success!

[Paladin2]

I think Ford sold the 9 inch rear axle tooling to someplace in South America where parts were produced for decades.

[M-cubed]

I guess you didn’t see the humor in his answer....lol...Slo joe is known to shoot from the hip.....sometimes with a 12 guage Double-barrelled shot gun even...../s

[Paal Gulli]

Finnish man blows up his Tesla in Super-Slo-Mo because Elon wanted $23,000 for a replacement battery

And guess whose effigy he put in the drivers seat.

[jonrick46]

I can imagine repair shops stealing the working batteries out of your EV and swapping it with one that is ready to fail.

[Therapsid]

Guess they Have to start whipping those black kids in Africa were mining lithium and get the prices down reasonable..

[Dr. Sivana]

I didn’t know of any all electric Ford models that would be out of production. The Ford Focus Electric was poorly received and never sold more than 2,000 vehicles per year. It was a sub-compact car that cost $40,000, even though it was based on a standard Focus platform, and was not optimized for car batteries.

I made the mistake once of purchasing a used Ford Contour gasoline/CNG car back when gasoline was $4 in 2013 and I had a very long commute. The CNG option never worked.

Stay away from white elephants.

[Dr. Sivana]

I had a ‘55 chevy for awhile. Some parts were specialty. But a suprising amount were still available on the shelves at NAPA.

Exceptional choice if you can afford it. Since there are '55 Chevy replicars parts will be available until they are regulated out of existence.

Classic Mustangs are also an excellent choice for the same reason. Also, pick-up trucks. There are millions. Most parts do not change from year to year, and people hold on to them for real work even when they look like crap.

[Secret Agent Man]

More precisely, they bought an older, used battery powered car. The old and used is why they ran into their problems.