Roxane Leathers: Electric cars can seem quite unusual if you have not been following the discussion about them. Many of the interesting positive comments have taken place in the Alternative Fuel Vehicles section which YA has seen fit to place under "Environment" rather than the "Cars and Transportation" section. Battery costs will vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, and also depend upon the capacity, quality and quantity of the batteries. We like shorthands and used to say that the batteries would be 1/2 the cost of the vehicle. Technology improves, the price comes down (some may remember the first $4000 cell phones) and we are now looking at around 1/3 the price of the vehicle or less. The $109,000 Tesla Roadster has a large (53 KW-hr) battery that can take the car over 200 miles but costs about $36,000 to replace. The $32,780 Nissan leaf has a (24 KW-hr) battery that takes the car about 100 miles, has a warranty of 100,00 miles or 8 years and has a replacemen! t cost of $9000 at this time. These Lithium batteries will be considered "used up" for an electric car when they are reduced to about 70 to 80% of capacity. They will then be available to a secondary market for stationary uses where energy density (by weight or volume) is not important. There they may last another 5 or 10 years and then be recycled.The Leaf after tax incentives costs approximately $25,000 ($20,000 in California.) If we subtract the battery the basic vehicle cost is about $16,000. Amortized over the life of the battery the cost of the battery comes to $.09 per mile. Fuel costs are about $.04 per mile. Today's average US gasoline price is $3.596.1 A petrol vehicle would have to get (3.596/.13 = ) 27.7 mpg just to equal this cost with its fuel expense. When you consider oil and filter changes the mpg of the petrol vehicle would have to be even higher. As the price of gasoline goes up the EV looks even better. Do you think the price of gasoline is! going to go down? If you consider buying the vehicle where t! here are extra incentives as in California then you will have to find this package in a vehicle costing around $11,000. So as they say, "just do the math." Unfortunately many ahead of you already have. Demand is far exceeding supply and there is a huge backlisting of orders that may not be filled for months....Show more
Idell Syed: Another thing you should also consider is where do we get electricity from...
Jude Colbenson: the batteries are sapose to last 10 years.But then what, good question, as we know high mileage cars are worth less then low mileage cars. recycling is in place now and they don't use lead acid batteries, they use lithem batteries,witch are more recycle friendly the most.
Bryan Avinger: to not point out it incredibly is probable the fairest tutor in cable information. Greg Gutfeld - conservative with libertarian leanings invoice Schulz - liberal with libertarian leanings Andy Levy - libertarian
Sunshine Holets: You make good po! ints and I don't know the answer. I also wonder where we will get all this electric power to power millions of these cars.I think the electric car is just a fad and will go away.
Sammy Kar: Actually the battery reclaiming facilities have been in place for many years. I have also wondered what the cost would be to 'refurb' such a vehicle. :-)=
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