And why would you want to do that?
Are you really asking why anyone would like fast cars and pickups? A huge fraction of the market is dedicated to exactly this, a high-power sportier variant of any vehicle is usually the most desirable trim level, for a reason.
Do you like replacing tires prematurely?
No one
likes replacing tires, but it's a small price to pay for fun. Also, wanting to have power available when desired or needed doesn't require you to go around spinning your tires all day everyday.
If a battery fails in a vehicle with an ICE, do you throw away the vehicle?
Has anyone suggested that? I do believe the cost of replacement is high enough that poeple might not want to invest that much in an older vehicle, esp. if they were already considering an upgrade. But I haven't seen any discussion of anyone "throwing away" their EV due to a need for a battery replacement.
Battery powered vehicles should be the same way, you should be able to simply and easily swap out the battery.
EVs and their batteries should be designed to be interchangeable and standard sized (based on charge and performance), but which all manufacturers could easily cross-utilize.
This is already done to some degree, the Model S was famously designed with a large flat battery pack in the floor, to allow for quick battery swaps at a service center. Nearly zero customers were actually interested in signing up for battery swap plans, so they dropped it about ten years ago, but it's feasible.
But doing this also requires compromises in everything from handling to interior space, as the vehicles are typically designed around the massive weight of these batteries. In the case of the model S, I think it resulted in an undesirable step-in height, that some customers complained about.
Every battery would have a battery charge/health meter, and you could exchange a dead battery, but otherwise, it wouldn't matter if the battery was on the 100th charge or the 1000th charge.
Most of the data available so far shows these batteries are still above 90% capacity at a quarter of a
million km. If we assume the typical customer might plug their car in overnight every 200 km, that's over 1000 typical charge cycles.
I don't think most EV owners are charging their battery to 100% and then waiting for the thing to hit 0%, before bothering to charge again. Most probably plug the car in when they get home, anytime the thing drops below 50%, depending on the length of their daily commute.
The current approach is so anti-customer, and short sighted to install manufacturer proprietary batteries in every unique brand of EV.
I'm not sure I follow this? Most customers will never need a battery replacement. So, you're saying "zero charge" is anti-consumer? Let's not pretend the average person will
ever have to swap batteries on their EV, failure is rare.
Recent studies have shown that only 2% of new EV buyers will
ever need to buy a new battery, a substantial fraction of which are those damaged in accidents and covered by insurance. In fact, although the data is too "young" to be conclusive, but all indications are that EV's built after 2016 (newer battery tech) should cause the replacement rate to drop below 1%.
We get a lot of questions from our community about electric car batteries. That is partly because the cost of battery replacement is so high (more on that later), but it is also due to limited information.
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