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For most US drivers, electric vehicles offer emissions benefits and cost savings, according to a new study by MIT researchers (news.mit.edu)

submitted 3 weeks ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/news@lemmy.world

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

All excellent information. Thank you so much! That's really cool about the individual cell replacement. I thought that was still on the horizon! The future can be very cool.

This is sounding more and more like a good idea. Especially with how fast this 15 gallon tank is dropping every week...

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To give you a little more info as you seem genuinely interested.

Taking the battery size in kWh and multiplying by 3 or 4 will give you a rough range in miles. Big heavy cars will be more like 3 miles per kWh. Small cars will be closer to 4.
My 2017 BMW i3 (34kWh, tiny battery by today's standards) still gets 100-120 miles and it's coming up for 9 years old. That's why I say 45 miles won't be a problem.
As somebody else stated, some more modern cars are making the battery less serviceable. Tesla's especially, but others too. Fact is batteries have lasted longer than we expected a decade ago so manufacturers aren't prioritising making them a serviceable component. That's good and bad.
The exception is when the battery isn't cooled properly. Nissan leafs suffer with huge battery damage because the leaf didn't cool it's batteries during charging.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for the tips! Especially the quick offhand battery / range formula.

Yeah, I'm definitely looking into this. I'm mainly worried about all the nonsense with only having the 2016 CRV for like 2 years and making payments on it.

It's a good car. I just really can't stand another $2000 maintenance bill on top of skyrocketing insurance and gas... I'm hoping we're not "upside down" on the loan but I've never tried to do this before so I really gotta be careful with how many gotchas I imagine there are with this process...

(Ugh. Dealers suuuuck...)

The 2021 Chevy Bolt has my eye, though. It seems really roomy for being a small platform and the range is pretty great! I'm at least gonna go try and test drive one. They're running for roughly $17k, which is what I got our CRV for...

If it lasts even 5 years with all those reduced costs, it feels like it'll be pretty worthwhile...