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Old 01-18-2023, 06:50 PM   #1526
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada View Post
I would disagree with the word disposable as that means that it's easily discarded. As long as the battery has been charged as per manufacturer recommendation over its lifetime, you should still have solid battery capacity 5 years into ownership. However with ICE most improvements from generation to generation bring only very modest increases in efficiency. With EV's it's likely new model cycles will bring vastly more range rendering the outgoing model more obsolete than we have been accustomed to with outgoing generations of ICE vehicles.
This presumes that range actually matters [that much] and there won't be plenty of rational buyers who know that 150km is plenty of range for them 364 days a year, regardless of the ~350km that seems to be the bare minimum fathomable to offer North American customers.
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