There is maintenance you have to do, bearings that can and do fail, windings that fail.
The problem is the percentage of that cost compared to the second hand value. A full ICE drivetrain for a FWD car is not the same price as a fully functional second hand ICE vehicle. Whereas a battery back can be the same to double the price of a functional second hand battery EV. You can also rebuild an ICE drivetrain, or buy used there as well, things that aren’t yet possible with batteries.
ICE sucks, and we need something else, batteries suck just as much in different ways.
Replacing cells is far from simple and can be deadly if done wrong by someone who does not know what they are doing. Wet chemical batteries are terrible at storing energy compared to dry chemical batteries and super-capacitors, which are both close to mass production, but far from being implemented in the automotive world right now. I agree they are good for what we have now, but need to be replaced with something more sustainable, save and clean.
There is maintenance you have to do, bearings that can and do fail, windings that fail.
The problem is the percentage of that cost compared to the second hand value. A full ICE drivetrain for a FWD car is not the same price as a fully functional second hand ICE vehicle. Whereas a battery back can be the same to double the price of a functional second hand battery EV. You can also rebuild an ICE drivetrain, or buy used there as well, things that aren’t yet possible with batteries.
ICE sucks, and we need something else, batteries suck just as much in different ways.
Thanks for the info.
You can fix individual cells in a battery pack so some are repairable.
I think batteries are the answer we are just in thr early days of this tech still.
Replacing cells is far from simple and can be deadly if done wrong by someone who does not know what they are doing. Wet chemical batteries are terrible at storing energy compared to dry chemical batteries and super-capacitors, which are both close to mass production, but far from being implemented in the automotive world right now. I agree they are good for what we have now, but need to be replaced with something more sustainable, save and clean.