Just 70K miles. Maybe it’s best they go up in flames, after all.
Related, from the comments;
So I may or may not work for a foreign car company 🙂 . Biden’s recently passed “climate bill” eliminates tax credits for foreign manufactured EVs. Customers now canceling EV pre-orders in droves, with boatloads of refund $ now flooding out the door. In a way I absolutely love it because the company is infested with Biden voters, they’re constantly virtue signaling their alliance with wokesterism, all the millennials have their personal pronouns in their email signature, and “DEI” is all the rage.
What’s the phrase? “Get ******” lol
Damn State Battery Fees….
such a racket….
Democrats might look at increasing that 0.0055% tax in the future.
What if there aren’t battery packs available at any price and you’re stuck soldering cells together at your kitchen table. Possibly there will be drm to prevent that too.
It might be a bad idea to give business to bankrupt entities – they could be predatory.
Imagine when GM delists the battery because the vehicle is too ‘old’.
What’s a slightly used volt worth ?
“What’s a slightly used volt worth ?”
– Nothing. Next question? Seriously, depreciation on EV’s is horrendous; on 3-year-old Leafs, it can be 75% – and on anything that needs a battery, it’s likely scrap price. Only Teslas (and I imagine Euro-exotics like Porsche and the e-Mustang) somewhat escape this, because people actually want them and are prepared to risk battery replacement to get their paws on one.
There’s a Tesla I would REALLY love to own – a guy in the ‘States tore out the battery and electrics, chopped-out the underhood floor and put a spiced-up Chev LS V8 in it. Tesla soul, gas-guzzler muscle!
Y. Knot, “a guy in the ‘States tore out the battery and electrics, chopped-out the underhood floor and put a spiced-up Chev LS V8 in it. Tesla soul, gas-guzzler muscle!”
That would probably cost as much as the replacement battery anyway, but I agree that a hot rodded a Tesla, would be the only way I’d ever even consider owning an EV. However, my preference would really be a little deuce coup with the same spiced up LS in it. Sigh.
And best of all, he can boast to fellow Tesla owners that he has a 400+ mile range, and recharges in five minutes! =D
When you consider that 70 000 miles is about $5000 or so worth of gas, the guy is only 25 grand in the hole, a small price to pay for saving the Earth from the evils of Zoltar and his hordes!
When the battery and car go up in flames, doesn’t that release all kinds of toxins into the environment?
How much is Zoltar paying you?
Even worse than that HiHo … since the Volt only went 80 km on battery and then was gas motor driven the owner may have been buying a lot of gas if he regularly travelled far. Short commutes could have been all electric.
Hahaha. There’s one born every minute. I got 300,000km on my v8 truck. Haven’t had to replace the battery in it yet, but when I do it will be about $150. Good luck selling those used e-cars. They are a stupid fad.
I’d buy one for $200+towing.
If they gave it to me one, I sell it as fast as I could.
These things are bound for the dust bin.
So I may or may not work for a foreign car company 🙂 . Biden’s recently passed “climate bill” eliminates tax credits for foreign manufactured EVs. Customers now canceling EV pre-orders in droves, with boatloads of refund $ now flooding out the door. In a way I absolutely love it because the company is infested with Biden voters, they’re constantly virtue signaling their alliance with wokesterism, all the millennials have their personal pronouns in their email signature, and “DEI” is all the rage.
What’s the phrase? “Get ******” lol
Sid V, I don’t know what the rest of north America is seeing, but three to five years back, I maybe saw two or three EV’s in a year, now recently, I’ve noticed I’m seeing several daily, and I live in a small west coast town. I agree there is a boat load (should that be car load?) of virtue signaling going on. The idiots buying that EV crap eventually get the correct level of karma gob smacked at em! As did the owner of the EV that got that “repair” bill above.
You can’t fix stupid, but reality does bite harder, and hurts more, if you are stupid.
“Let them eat Lithium”
It’s a 2012…worth maybe $15k (Canadian) on a good day…and it ain’t for the poor sod who owns this wreck. Bet there’ll be lots of guys driving these into rivers for the insurance write-off.
Sorry to post out of context, and if you have to delete this because of misplacement, I understand.
[Deleted. If you have to mention it, it’s off topic. Stop it. – ED]
Fair enough, but I hope this will be a topic soon. Looking forward to it. Been in the news for a couple days and mysteriously no mention thus far. Waiting in anticipation. I was convinced 10 years ago on the non-merits of EV’s. More important things in the news…. Unless of course, you won’t touch anything controversial with regard to … the thing that shall not be mentioned or compared to anything else.
Hilarious…28 thou after only 70k miles…
Just how far did buddy bend over…?
I’m constantly gobsmacked at the utter beyond DENSE NESS of those who would willingly part with 40-50k for a potential funeral pyre IE: ANY EV being sold today.
Brain dead does not even come close.
Am sitting here, driving a,17 year old 3/4 Ton GMC truck, D’Max motor, 616,000kms on the clock…paid for well over a decade n then some ..drives/runs better than the day I drove it off Shaw’s lot.
Can Pull 11,000 lbs and MT..?? will cruise forever at 120kms/hr – 21.5 mpg……97 Gal fuel capacity: Calgary to …??
Screw EV Bullshit & the Climatard WEF…let em ALL burn (in hell)
Fossil Fuels rule.
14-year-old Altima with a 6-cyl and a stick. I bought it new, and it still drives like new. I’m not giving it up without a fight.
Market opportunity – converting E-cars with failed batteries to gas engines. Just a thought.
I doubt it could be made cost-effective to do that, unless maybe you used the existing engines and used a gas engine to keep a much smaller battery charged, ie a hybrid.
If anyone who frequents this blog still needs convincing EVs are the dumbest idea on earth… they don’t frequent this blog. So bored with how dumb, dangerous and diabolical ev’s are. If people haven’t caught on to that yet, they’re unreachable at this point.
Mass democide is much more pertinent.
Here’s some suggestions for new headings…. Because as much as you might hate me, I do love you and would treat you to a very expensive steak dinner.
“It’s not murder if the government does it”
“We don’t need no parasitic chitin”
“The government loves you, but they love inert object more”
From Dr. Rich Swier:
“All batteries are self-discharging. That means even when not in use, they leak tiny amounts of energy. You have likely ruined a flashlight or two from an old, ruptured battery. When a battery runs down and can no longer power a toy or light, you think of it as dead; well, it is not. It continues to leak small amounts of electricity. As the chemicals inside it run out, pressure builds inside the battery’s metal casing, and eventually, it cracks. The metals left inside then ooze out. The ooze in your ruined flashlight is toxic, and so is the ooze that will inevitably leak from every battery in a landfill. All batteries eventually rupture; it just takes rechargeable batteries longer to end up in the landfill.”
https://drrichswier.com/2022/03/18/all-electric-vehicles-evs-are-actually-powered-by-coal-uranium-natural-gas-or-diesel-powered-energy/
I have taken apart some pretty old li-ion batteries of drills, and haven’t ever seen leakage, even in completely dead cells.
And apparently they now recycle lithium batteries – not sure why they didn’t before, likely economics. This helps, A little.
The only way EV’s will become main stream is if it becomes mandatory and they make a law forcing them on us.
Oh, wait…….Newsom in Califu***d just announced they will ban sales of new ICE vehicles in 3035. I hope our pal Kenji manages to escape that place before Newsom fences it off, just to keep his tax base inside the state.
EV’s are not without their faults, granted, but there is way too much wrong with this “quote”.
Folks at reddit sum it up:
https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/wxpi35/volt_battery_replacement_30k/
Welcome to agenda 2030!
https://www.canada.ca/en/transport-canada/news/2021/06/building-a-green-economy-government-of-canada-to-require-100-of-car-and-passenger-truck-sales-be-zero-emission-by-2035-in-canada.html
According to one poster at Reddit, they called the dealership and it’s legit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/wxpi35/comment/ilwikkg/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Apparently so…
https://backthetruckup.com/30000-invoice-is-real/
I like to see more proof than one post from a new member. That invoice is pretty scant on details, letterhead etc, not very professional.
There are some other companies that make replacements as well, like Rock Auto, but they are out of stock.
Also, it’s a compound battery, so one could replace just the affected cells, hopefully..