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by brianwawok 2045 days ago
LEAF went the cheap route of battery with bad thermal management. I think current generation of other BEV should get you at least 10 years. Not going to yet match my 16 year old Honda I have in my driveway as my backup car, but getting closer!!
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sokoloff 2045 days ago
All of that's true, but largely not helpful to the working poor who today can buy pretty reliable 15-20 year old Corollas, Civics, CR-Vs, etc for $1500-3000 and expect to drive them for 5 years or more and have them be every bit as useful at 25 years old as they were when they were 25 months old.

"other BEV should get you at least 10 years" isn't nearly the same as "will get you 25 years if it doesn't rust out or get crashed".

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brianwawok 2045 days ago
Sure, but do realize those 25 year old cars are likely polluting 2-10x more than modern cars. The sooner we can get the oldest cars off the road, the best chance our planet has.
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sokoloff 2045 days ago
Order of magnitude, making a car creates about as much emissions as driving it over its lifetime. [0]

If we typically average even just 20 years from an ICE and 10 from a BEV, the BEV starts out way behind in the green race and might never catch up.

Stopping making new inefficient cars is good. Scrapping working perfectly good cars is an alloy of good and bad.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...

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