Electric vehicles are selling well. The costs of replacing batteries were discovered by a family in St. Pete, FL.
Many teens are familiar with the suburban rite of passage of being able to drive to school. All went well for the first 6 months after her family paid for it.
"At first, it was okay," Siwinski said. I liked it a lot. It was small and peaceful. It stopped working suddenly.
Siwinski took her car to the dealership with the assistance of her grandfather, Ray Siwinski. The battery would need to be replaced. She paid more for the car than it was worth. The Focus Electric model was discontinued by Ford four years ago.
Ray warned that there is no second-hand market right now because the manufacturers are not supporting the cars.
An issue for the EV market is shown in the anecdote.
The batteries of an EV can be recycled. There isn't an EV battery manufacturing and recycling infrastructure outside of China, which makes it more difficult for resources to be used to make the batteries. EV batteries are heavy and costly to transport and are much more difficult to recycle than lead acid batteries.
There's a looming lithium shortage as well. The Department of Energy is planning to build 13 new EV battery plants by the year 2025.
Another problem is battery reliability. The owners of older models from other manufacturers haven't been as lucky as the owners of the newer ones. It's not a good idea to replace the engine in a gas vehicle after just eight years since federal law requires that EV batteries be guaranteed for eight years.
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