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Electric cars can’t run without a battery. Electric cars also need their batteries replaced periodically. That is bad news for electric car owners.
It’s really bad news for suckers early adopters who bought GM’s Spark EV. MisHum noted this story in a recent Overnight Thread:
GM reportedly stops providing battery pack replacements for the Chevy Spark EV [The Verge – 4/24/2022]
General Motors will reportedly no longer provide battery replacements for the all-electric version of the Chevy Spark, according to a report from EV-Resource (via InsideEVs). The Chevy Spark electric vehicle (EV) was first released in 2013, and GM continued to make new models until 2016.
With the oldest model of the Spark EV reaching almost 10 years old, vehicle owners may find themselves without a working car if their battery pack fails.
The spark had an 8-year, 100,000 mile warranty on its battery pack. After that, the car is ready for the scrap yard.
Even if you drive an EV other than a Spark, you’re still going to have a problem when battery-replacement time comes.
The big looming problem with old EVs: It’s really, really hard to change the battery [Driving – 8/14/2021]
This story tells of a Canadian who drives a Nissan Leaf that has lost about 40% of its range as its battery has aged. So he figured he could simply call his Nissan dealer to buy a new one and have it installed.
So Brander set out to do what he assumed would be easy: Call the dealer and buy a new battery. But the Powell River man soon discovered that virtually no B.C. dealer had ever installed a post-warranty battery, and they even struggled to quote him a price.
“They keep referring you to Nissan Canada, who refer you back to your local dealer,” said Brander, adding, “this problem is going to get bigger as more of these Leafs start to lose their range.”
If you can find a dealer somewhere that can actually replace the battery, how much would it cost?
The National Post conducted an informal survey of Western Canadian Nissan dealerships to ask the cost of replacing a battery pack on a 2013 Nissan Leaf. Estimates ranged from $8,000 to an eye-watering $30,953.28 plus $1,200 in labour.
With our own government trying to outlaw internal combustion engines by next decade, and with prominent auto companies promising to go 100% electric, surely the battery problem will soon be fixed, right?
Rivian CEO warns the looming EV battery shortage will make the chip shortage feel like 'a small appetizer' for what's to come [Business Insider – 4/18/2022]
Put very simply, all the world's cell production combined represents well under 10% of what we will need in 10 years, meaning 90% to 95% of the supply chain does not exist.
EVs have a limited range and a limited life span. They will never be able to provide the freedom that gasoline-powered cars provide. To our ruling class, who so zealously want to eliminate gas-powered cars, those EV problems are a feature, not a bug.

[Cougar_ml]

1 hour ago, Schmidt Meister said:

Electric cars can’t run without a battery. Electric cars also need their batteries replaced periodically. That is bad news for electric car owners.
It’s really bad news for suckers early adopters who bought GM’s Spark EV. MisHum noted this story in a recent Overnight Thread:
GM reportedly stops providing battery pack replacements for the Chevy Spark EV [The Verge – 4/24/2022]
General Motors will reportedly no longer provide battery replacements for the all-electric version of the Chevy Spark, according to a report from EV-Resource (via InsideEVs). The Chevy Spark electric vehicle (EV) was first released in 2013, and GM continued to make new models until 2016.
With the oldest model of the Spark EV reaching almost 10 years old, vehicle owners may find themselves without a working car if their battery pack fails.
The spark had an 8-year, 100,000 mile warranty on its battery pack. After that, the car is ready for the scrap yard.
Even if you drive an EV other than a Spark, you’re still going to have a problem when battery-replacement time comes.

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So what happened there is the first year of the Spark had a different battery manufacturer than the rest of them.

That battery is no longer available and the part number shows as not available in the system now.

The later battery pack is fully compatible with the older one.  

The newer battery pack is in short supply.

 

GM clarified this that they plan to continue battery pack availability to at least the end of warranty.

 

Numbers I heard though are that there are only about 7,400 of this car that were sold in the U.S., so not like it's a really high priority.

 

They have also purchased back from customers some cars with failed battery packs due to supply chain issues with the current production battery pack.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRJLpl__IbA

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I think VW has the right idea for batteries. User replaceable standardized batteries. I hope they carry it to production. 

[DAKA]

3 hours ago, Schmidt Meister said:

Electric cars can’t run without a battery. Electric cars also need their batteries replaced periodically. That is bad news for electric car owners.
It’s really bad news for suckers early adopters who bought GM’s Spark EV. MisHum noted this story in a recent Overnight Thread:
GM reportedly stops providing battery pack replacements for the Chevy Spark EV [The Verge – 4/24/2022]
General Motors will reportedly no longer provide battery replacements for the all-electric version of the Chevy Spark, according to a report from EV-Resource (via InsideEVs). The Chevy Spark electric vehicle (EV) was first released in 2013, and GM continued to make new models until 2016.
With the oldest model of the Spark EV reaching almost 10 years old, vehicle owners may find themselves without a working car if their battery pack fails.
The spark had an 8-year, 100,000 mile warranty on its battery pack. After that, the car is ready for the scrap yard.
Even if you drive an EV other than a Spark, you’re still going to have a problem when battery-replacement time comes.
The big looming problem with old EVs: It’s really, really hard to change the battery [Driving – 8/14/2021]
This story tells of a Canadian who drives a Nissan Leaf that has lost about 40% of its range as its battery has aged. So he figured he could simply call his Nissan dealer to buy a new one and have it installed.
So Brander set out to do what he assumed would be easy: Call the dealer and buy a new battery. But the Powell River man soon discovered that virtually no B.C. dealer had ever installed a post-warranty battery, and they even struggled to quote him a price.
“They keep referring you to Nissan Canada, who refer you back to your local dealer,” said Brander, adding, “this problem is going to get bigger as more of these Leafs start to lose their range.”
If you can find a dealer somewhere that can actually replace the battery, how much would it cost?
The National Post conducted an informal survey of Western Canadian Nissan dealerships to ask the cost of replacing a battery pack on a 2013 Nissan Leaf. Estimates ranged from $8,000 to an eye-watering $30,953.28 plus $1,200 in labour.
With our own government trying to outlaw internal combustion engines by next decade, and with prominent auto companies promising to go 100% electric, surely the battery problem will soon be fixed, right?
Rivian CEO warns the looming EV battery shortage will make the chip shortage feel like 'a small appetizer' for what's to come [Business Insider – 4/18/2022]
Put very simply, all the world's cell production combined represents well under 10% of what we will need in 10 years, meaning 90% to 95% of the supply chain does not exist.
EVs have a limited range and a limited life span. They will never be able to provide the freedom that gasoline-powered cars provide. To our ruling class, who so zealously want to eliminate gas-powered cars, those EV problems are a feature, not a bug.

THEY DON'T G A S, By the time these cars need new batteries those MORONS will be out of office and retired...NOT THEIR PORBLEM         F*** us

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Got the deck swept off in the midnight sun now gonna have some beer. Cheers y’all.

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I'm sorry ...

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Dave Rubin @RubinReport
Hey @elonmusk, as long as your digging, check into how @nytimes, @forbes, etc., bought their Twitter followers to fake influence.
NY Times has 53 million followers and rarely gets 50 RTs.
I could post a 🍌 emoji and a pic of a 80s sitcom star and get more. (See next tweet.)

Elon Musk @elonmusk Replying to @RubinReport Yeah, I noticed that too. Pretty weird.

Musk hates bots, so people who bought bots to inflate their follower counts could be in for some embarrassment in the months to come.
As Tim Pool said, sagely: "Musk didn't just buy the company, he bought the evidence."
Yes, that is what has got to be freaking these people out the most. An awful lot of claims were made before Congress about not shadowbanning people, throttling accounts, etc.
That lie is about to be exposed.
And it's not like Twitter is the only one who lied about this. They all did it. Their employees migrated from company to company and shared tricks.
They all lied, and all their executives perjured themselves.

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