Thanks for your advice.

I have 16,000 miles on it now and for all of my regular service less than $200 to date. I love it. the battery is warentied for 10 years or 100,000 miles

@Andre-zd8ke

18 күн бұрын

Regretfully, just as ICE car manufacturers lie about the fuel usage of ICE cars, EV car manufacturers substantially exaggerate the length of the useful life of their lithium batteries.

to be safe I always charge my car outside

The fast charge can hurt the battery if you use that all the time

Unfortunately, recent studies have shown that EVs have less reliability and cost more to repair than ICE powered cars. Hybrids have the best reliability.

I have a 240 volt 30 amp outlet in my garage. takes about 6 hours to charge. plug it in at night and when I wake up it is fully charged. I get about 280 miles out of a charge

When the battery warranty expires, it definitely is important to factor in the cost of replacing the whole battery. Also, it is important to factor in the cost of totalling the car for any minor problem past the 2-3 years of age as the residual value of the car is going to be less than a manufacturer refurbished battery or a new engine. Need to also factor in the fact that many of the EVs have serialized parts: any minor issue and you won't be able to do anything yourself. And you make one big mistake: there are thousands of moving parts in an EV in addition to the most obvious (motor, transfer case and transmissions/bearings): each lithium ion physically moves between the cathode and the anode which one of the reason why the battery degrades from the moment it is assembled.

I have a KIA E niro I charge it at home. I have solar panels on my home so so the past 2 1/2 years it cost me nothing to operate my car.

always charge your car to 80% that saves the life of the battery. once every month or so charge to 100%

at 100% I can go about 305 miles

by the time the battery goes bad it will be time for a new car anyway

@Andre-zd8ke

18 күн бұрын

??? With proper maintenance the average-usage ICE vehicle easily last 15-plus. No chance that an Lithium-based battery in an average-usage EV will last that long and still have a reasonable charging capacity. EVs are very use-case based in the advantages they offer. For me, living in Australia & regularly driving long distances (two drivers), don't want to spend time looking for some suitable charging station, and then wasting time we don't have on charging an EV, EVs are next to useless. My KIA Carnival diesel easily does 800-900 kilometres on highways without having to worry and refilling the tank takes about five minutes.