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Exactly this. I read about a guy buying his daughter a used electric car for $12k only for it to need a $16k battery like 3 months later, and to make matters worse, they don’t sell the battery anymore. Then last week I watched a vid about how Hyundai wants to charge you $60k if you scratch the scratch plate under your car as they wont service the battery located there, just just write the whole thing off.
Until there is government mandated, removable, interchangeable batteries- I don’t see how this will get better. There needs to be a system in place for battery exchange, repair, recycling, and regulation. Imagine if you could only buy gas from the company that makes your car, and they could decide to stop selling the special gas for your model any time they wanted.
I don’t think batteries as we have them now are the answer at all, and need to be treated as the stopgap they were. There is better technology now that would be economically better, though power output and range would be considerably hampered. We need an alternate power storage solution.