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Originally Posted by pylon
It's the equivalent of your gas tank shrinking a few liters every year. As a gas car ages, the fuel economy actually tends to get a bit better after you buy it, and marginally might get worse as it ages. But it's likely 1 or 2%, nothing you'd notice.
Also, if your engine or transmission fails on your F150, or Corolla... whatever. You can always pay a mechanic to rebuild it for 3-5k on most cars, or even find a used one out of a salvage car for $1500. These options do not exist on EV's. 95% of the time, an EV involved in an accident requiring salvage, renders the battery questionable at best, a fire hazard at worst.
What's more environmentally friendly? Salvaging a used motor out of a Corolla and repurposing it, or installing a new lithium battery. I guarantee you the carbon footprint of that battery just made that EV way worse on every environmental metric than the Corolla will ever be.
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Apparently, as the vehicle (Model S) reaches 100,000 miles (160,000 KM), the difference is about -75 miles of range from new.
If my vehicle lost 120 KM of range per full tank, I would notice it big-time.