A battery for an ice car is a couple of hundred dollars… It can also be jump started and will then be able to be driven. A Hybrid just doesn’t work, full stop. Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat
It needs to get a job in Coolum be it, working in a fast food chain outlet like RR or the Surf Club, it has far too much time on her hands ...like most pension folk !
The sweet spot for EVs is those who buy or lease a car every 4 or 5 years. If you keep a new car 15 years, or like to buy 10-year-old cars, EV is not a good choice because of high replacement battery cost. My sister-in-law has been buying or leasing new Mercedes every few years for 3 decades. She switched to Tesla about 3 years ago and would not go back to MB in a million years. Practically free to fuel comparatively, no maintenance, and the thing she loves most is never needing to go to the gas station. She’s only needed to use a Tesla Supercharger once in 3 years.
Don't hybrids have a separate 12V system as well? Someone was having 296 problems and the upshot was they and to keep both high and low voltage batteries charged
Being a finance guy, there must be a massive trade-off in owning a full EV car due to their non-interest second-hand and resale value,so a very low final payment, or if rented as such the payments would reflect that. They might work for some of us but not for me in the kms I travel . A friend is a director of a multi-make dealership , they have over 100 EV vans in stock (new) unable to sell 'em and as such have given them to companies free as demos ,be a tax savings Your sister inlaw be of interest to see if and when she sells her car if she jumps back in one again
Her Model Y is holding value better than her Mercedes did, at least in the US. Tesla resale was statistically hurt recently because Tesla cut prices pretty significantly -- plus the US reinstated the $7500 federal incentive that was not in place when she bought her car. So resale looks bad statistically, but it's really simply because Tesla made it much cheaper to buy that same model new today. Still, even with that, used resale is as good or better than Mercedes (in the US). It costs her $10 to go 300 miles and no maintenance. Still best thing to her by far is never going to a gas station. She couldn't be more certain that she will never go back to MB or ICE. I can't stand the golf cart look of the Tesla front end or the golf cart dashboard and user interface. It Tesla made a car I liked, it would be my next daily driver. Not sure other EV's are ready for prime time.
Not in my experience, if the battery is faulty it doesn’t work. They will not drive on the ice engine alone. Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat
I don’t know, but PHEV Mitsubishis are a certainty. People were trading in for $17,000, battery went, quoted $12,000 for new battery. Car could not be driven, would not work in any way with faulty battery. Sold car to wreckers for $5,000. How green is this? Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat
