My EV is 5 years old now. Currently there is no noticeable difference in the battery capacity. The battery is warranted to be replaced if less than 90% capacity before 10 years.

In another 5 years if I’ve lost ~30km of range it will still be barely noticeable. Even as low as 50% wouldn’t effect my daily usage, I would just have to plug it in more often.

Now I’m a pretty chill driver, and charge using the 10amp “travel” charger and have only used a fast charger about 12 times, so pretty good for battery life. You can’t know how someone has driven a car and if they’ve thrashed it the battery could be in much worse condition. But the same can be said for ICE, and to be fair replacing an engine is much cheaper than batteries; though I’ve not looked into pricing as I have no need yet.

The electric model cost $10,000 more than the petrol model and I’ve just hit 100,000km. So far I’ve saved $10,000-$12,000 in petrol costs (after electricity costs) compared of my old hybrid. The further you travel the more significant the savings are compared to petrol, even moreso if you can charge off of solar/solar+ home battery. The less you travel the less the battery will degrade.

So replacing a battery at 10 years at a minimum would break even with an ice vehicle over that time, much more likely is you’ll still have saved more money.

I don’t know if there is a way to find out how much a car battery has degraded, or how reliable it would be. I think that would help ease some anxiety about buying a used EV at least a little if you can see the battery is still +90% capacity.

I thoroughly agree it would be a massive kick in the teeth to buy a used one only to find the capacity is shot and needs to be replaced.

You won’t know secret third thing, it goes to another war in Canada.

I had the same thought yesterday but for Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails.

They will investigate themselves, but they’ll find no wrongdoing.

The Bart, the.

Maybe they should give them extra money and resources so they can produce two versions: normal, and background mode with reiteration littered through it.

You need to give yourself more credit. You didn’t become a failure, it was within you the whole time; you were always a failure…

That concludes my Pep Talk®

This is correct. As a grown arse-man, this is a fantastic movie. Number is great too, and there’s not many movie I am actually looking forward, but the 3rd Incredibles movie makes the cut.

Couldn’t you make it go to 10 and just make 10 more of a struggle

Pfft, that’s nothing! My strings is twelvety three

This reminded me of an anecdote from maybe 6 years ago. I was setting up and testing a small network and a couple devices to install for a customer, let’s say the subnet was 192.168.2.0/24.

Weird things were happening, I was being lazy and wasn’t directly connected to the network, may have setup a VPN between devices somewhere; can’t really remember. But pings would sometimes drop or blow out to 100’s ms.

I eventually ended up disconnecting that network entirely, then the pings continued and got more stable?? WTF! I need we didn’t have that subnet in use, even checked before setting it up. In the time between checking and the issues happening, someone in Sydney somewhere had stuffed up on their router and exposed there LAN to the internet without any Firewalls, just available.

Scanned and found all the IPs in use and in them found a printer. Connected to it and printed a page saying I’m from company XYZ and found all these devices available, and to either contact their IT and resolve it ASAP or my company to help. About an hour later it seemed to be resolved.

It was an interesting day.

But, but, splosion make line go up. Splosion good…?

9 out of 10 dentists recommend it!

Is Nestle above paying cartels for killings? That seems like it’d be right up their alley.

Less profits for shareholders? And that is unacceptable!

/s

Bonjour

My response to Real Men® statements is “Real men don’t need their masculinity defined by others.”

Yeah, it seems not many people know the last bit. I say it everytime after a slight pause “… oftentimes better than master of one.” And then watch the little look of confusion. Some people will stop and think about it, and comment something like, I guess that’s true, but not as often.

…But why male models?

You call that a knoife? This, is a knoife 🥄!