Replacing a battery on a Prius is a lot simpler than replacing one on a Tesla.
Reality check on electric cars
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Replacing a battery on a Prius is a lot simpler than replacing one on a Tesla.
No, it isn't.
No, they aren't.
You are driving a hybrid, not an EV. You are simply using more gas.
Not tolerable in an EV. It is tolerable in a hybrid.
He has already admitted his battery is losing it's ability to charge, and he's driving a hybrid, not an EV. A battery in that condition on an EV necessitates replacement. In a hybrid, he's just using more gas. Eventually, even a hybrid will fail to start because the battery gets so bad it can't charge at all.
It's also a lot easier to replace a hybrid battery pack than an EV battery pack.
Tesla warranty until very recently was 4 years or 100,000 miles.
Tesla warranty is currently 8 years or 150,000 miles. Yes...it covers the battery to retain 70% of it's new condition.
You are seeing it in the data. You are seeing vehicle fires caused by charging problems too. Problems that could take out your house along with your garage.
You do not seem to understand how batteries work. They lose capacity with time and usage. You can get 50 years out of any battery, but at the end it will hold nearly no charge.
It is a bigger battery i the Tesla, but it is the same type of battery, with the same lifetime.
We have explained this to you so many times, it is clear you do not want to understand.
Fossil is from the Latin fossilis, and means something that is dug out of the ground. Fossil fuels would be fuels that are dug out of the ground, but in modern usage is usually limited to hydrocarbons (not uranium nor geothermal). Fossils are any traces of life from previous ages that are in the ground. The most commonly thought of is rock deposits that replaces bones, but actually coal counts as a fossil.
Technically, a hybrid is an EV... AND an ICE. It is a hybrid between the two.
Range anxiety is a real think in a pure EV, so there are some limits on the tolerance of battery capacity, but different people would have different tolerances.
T. A. Gardner
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Actually, I'm what you call an "expert" on batteries. Yes, the US Navy trained me on that. There are all sorts of reasons on can fail, and given that the ones in all EV vehicles today are of the lithium ion sort, and used in mass quantities--usually in the thousands--means that the failure of just one cell drags down the whole battery pack. Two or three cells failing out of thousands means a new pack.
That, for example, Tesla's battery packs for their cars are engineered by idiots gives me ZERO confidence in their longevity.
How you charge is as important as how you drive the vehicle.
Maybe 20 years ago.
T. A. Gardner
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That video was made by one of the US's leading experts on EV cars and repairing them OEM, last month.
No battery lasts 50 years, dude.
It is a much smaller battery then a Tesla, dumbass.
LIF.
So according to you, sand is a fossil. So is granite, uranium, diamonds, gold, silver, iron, copper, etc.
No, a fossil is an image of a plant or animal in stone.
We don't dig for oil or natural gas. We can drill for oil and natural gas, but you can also get natural gas from swamps, compost piles, and landfills. Fossils are not a liquid nor a gas.
Okay. You just locked yourself in paradox. You are being irrational.
Oil is not alive and never was. Natural gas is not alive and never was.
Carbon is not a fossil, though it may contain fossils.
No a hybrid is a hydrid. It is not an EV. It is an ICE with a buffering system.
An EV depends entirely on it's battery as it's source of power. There is no internal combustion engine. Today, these batteries will last about eight years.
That's better than before where they lasted only about four years.
All lithium-oxide batteries are subject to battery fires if charged at excessive rates or discharged at excessive rates. These are the lightest rechargeable battery made, due to the use of lithium as it's base metal. They have a low internal resistance, making them ideal for powering EVs or buffering power for hybrids.
This is exactly right. All it takes is for one cell in a series to fail cause the whole series circuit to fail. These batteries are wired in a set of multiple series circuits in parallel. As each parallel branch goes, capacity is reduced. Typically, when a battery pack fails, it's due to just a few batteries that have actually failed.
A new battery pack for a Tesla costs $25,000 for the part, plus labor to exchange it.
Unlike lead-acid batteries, lithium-oxide (lithium ion) batteries are not practically recyclable.
Nope. Today.
I have to say that a heat pump, with great insulation makes for the most comfortable house I have ever lived in. I pay comparatively little for the heating and cooling, due to solar panels. I really cannot go back to the old oil heat.
It did cost a lot upfront, but I had the money, so why not?
They can be nice. Heat pumps don't use solar panels.
If you want to spend all that money to install solar panels to power your heat pump and auxillary HVAC, that's your choice. Don't ask me or anyone else to pay for them though.