Friend was in the local Ford dealer in the UK getting his daughters Mustang serviced, it had taken them 8 weeks to get a service slot and when he asked the Service Manager why he said 30% of his workshop is booked up replacing batteries in Mach Es nearly all on warranty.
in fairness manufacturers often have to accept teething problems with new technology, to get to a point where things start to work well, and it all makes money, it part and parcel of new technology development. Dyson with the bagless vacuum cleaner had the worst reliability of any cleaner at first but just kept on top of it and worked the marketing until they sorted it all out. It does look like the Germans have done their home work on batteries a bit better than Ford in this instance. It was not that long ago (70's?) that new ICE cars would not start, had pitiful fuel consumption, caught fire, exploded in accidents and often rusted within a few years, these things cost the manufacturers until they sorted it out. EV's are no different, its not the fact it's an EV that's causing these issues its that fact that the technology is new to the manufacturer.
That seems a little odd, WTF is going on there? Is there a separate EV parking area near this or some thing?
Except the battery life of 10 years is based on the manufacturers warranty, does that mean because you only get a 3 year warranty on your ICE car it's safe to assume that the engine will need replaced in 3 years? I have just sold a 9 year old BMW i3 and the battery was 97% of original capacity, and possibly never had 100%. I am not convinced this 10 year thing is real. I have a 4 year old EQC now which is all electric and reading up on studies abour how best to charge the batteries and store them and there are studies showing degredation over up to 50 years with different charging strategies, but nothing about self destruct, so sure the capacity will degrade to some extent but they should last. Sure there are photos of EV's on fire and all that but there are ICE cars that go on fire every day, its just no-one cares anymore because there is no axe to grind. I don't see any reason why EV's wont last as long as ICE cars, if they are looked after. I intend to keep the EQC as long as i can its a great car, and there is not much to it either,2 motors, no gearbox, no clutch, hardly use the brakes, not so much to go wrong, so should be easy to maintain.
No doubt davy , ive no reason to doubt or challenge what you are saying , they probably have an area of the market to which they can perform admirably , my contention is more about the reasons and IMHO dubious reason they were brought about and sold to the general public in the first place as being green and planet saving , to some it was obvious and now the data is out proves that they are no where near as environmentally friendly as originally claimed , in fact they are more planet damaging than ice vehicles when ALL the build to end of life processes are taken into consideration , then add into the equation the cost of planet degradation caused by all the extra mining involved to supply the copper and plastics that will go into building additional infrastructure to cope with said vehicles.
