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Originally Posted by chassis
Range anxiety is one thing. This is your point, correct? Let’s assume this is adequately addressed in the future. It will be.
The gas tank shrinks over time. Battery range shrinks over time. That’s how batteries work at present.
Who wants to buy a vehicle that delivers a shrinking amount of transportation utility over time?
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Oh you were saying as to long term usability, I thought you just meant less range than a gas tank provides.
While I'm not as knowledgeable in that subject, I do know that some manufacturers have Battery warranties included if a batteries usability were to decrease past 70% of its initial capacity for 8yrs/150k, and I believe that most manufacturers leave a buffer of capacity? But like I said I don't know too much about battery technology to truly answer. This will definitely be an interesting point for those that tend to keep their vehicles long-term or high-milage.
At the moment I'm not sure how batteries will age, that is still to be seen as all these EV's aside from Tesla's are too new to know, but I have seen some high milage Tesla's, but that will be another area in which I guess we will have to hope that the technology prevails and progresses quickly.