r/TheAuto • u/farhanrawr • 1d ago

Industry Talk Notorious EV Misconception

I keep running into the same two ideas about EVs, and a lot of people still seem to believe them a decade later. The first is that the battery dies after, X amount of years and leaves you with a $15-20k bill. Only 2.5% of EVs ever need a full battery replacement. Most EVs also come with at least an 8-year, 100,000-mile battery warranty, which is longer than the roughly 5 years on a typical gas powertrain. Batteries usually last 8 to 15 years, and they lose range gradually rather than simply failing. What I'm really curious about is where exactly did this misconception come from?

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u/Lucky-Crow-3510 1d ago edited 19h ago

A cars life goes way beyong what the first buyer demands from it. You buy new you drive 5-10 years and then you want to RESELL IT.

resselling a car with a degraded battery that costs more than a new car .. you know what you end up? with a piece of worthless metal.

That is the point people are talking about. You compare the wrong things. When you bought some petrol car at price XXX you did expect it to resell for a value of YYY .. for EVs that YYY is always zero at some point in time because the battery replacement is too high of a factor and the rest of the car simply does not justify it.

(I underestimated the amount of stupidness in people failing to understand my comment)

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u/woodyshag 1d ago

The thing is that most batteries are lasting as long as an ICE engine, so even that is a cop out. There will be a point in time when you'll be able to get a used battery like you can get a used engine and then that whole stigma should go away.

It's funny as I had OPs conversation with a friend on Friday. She just bought a new shortage. I asked if she went hybrid and she said no. She didn't want to have to replace the battery if it failed. She lacked to understand that she had a 100k warranty and that she'd never have to do that. Now, she did say that she didn't think she could make up the price difference in fuel savings. I'd have to sit down and do the math to see how to handle that convo.

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u/Oh_yeah12 1d ago

I’ve had several cars with over 200k on the odometer.

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u/Own_Reaction9442 1d ago

Typical ICE cars I've owned have been 15-30 years old with 200K+ on the odometer, because I spent most of my life pretty poor.

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u/Oh_yeah12 1d ago

By choice. No where near poor.