Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
EV's seem to weigh 30% more than their equivalent ICE. The expectation is that this difference will reduce as improvements in battery technology take place.
There is another problem with electric vehicles which has conveniently being ignored by the climate change experts.
On 3rd October 2020 we took a taxi for a meal in the Ship Inn Broughty Ferry.
It was an electric powered taxi and I asked the driver if he preferred it to a petrol or diesel powered taxi.
The taxi driver told me that he liked his electric powered taxi but there were some problems.
The taxi driver explained that when he had to put on his headlights and the heater in his taxi it reduced the number of miles that he could drive between charges of the large batteries in his electric powered taxi.
He then told me that the number of miles he could travel on a full charge has reduced as his taxi has got older.
Anyone purchasing a new electric powered vehicle is going to get the full number of miles on each charge, whereas someone purchasing a 3 year old second hand electric powered vehicle is going to notice a reduction in the number of miles travelled between charges compared to the manufacturer’s listed figures.
I can see these electric powered vehicles being scrapped a lot sooner than petrol or diesel powered vehicles because people cannot afford the cost of replacing these large batteries when they are unable to hold their charges.
I have previously read that the large batteries in today’s electric powered cars only last a maximum of ten yoears before they have to be replaced.
Hopefully some ‘expert’ on this site will be able supply the expected shelf life of a large battery in an electric powered vehicle in the U.K.
The batteries in laptops, IPads and iPhones do not last forever and the batteries in electric powered cars will likely be the same,