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Your electric car will fall apart before its battery pack does, study finds (electrek.co)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Nope. My car had not mechanical defects at all but cost $23k to repair when the battery failed.

[–] Kecessa 4 points 3 hours ago

And you saved more on gas and maintenance than the cost of that repair if it happened outside of warranty (which is 10 years on batteries)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Your battery wasn’t still under its 10 year / 100000 mile warranty?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Some people keep their cars for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago

"fall apart" is a very careful choice of words here.

The battery may fail, individual cells may fail, but it will still be one unit.