Anonymous wrote:This is great news. Cost is a major reason we chose to go with an ICE car when we bought two years ago.

The other reason though is still an issue: we currently spend a decent part of the winter in cold weather locations as both our extended families live in areas with harsh winters. Electric vehicles are less reliable and have shorter ranges when the temperatures drop below freezing. This is why most of our family have also not switched to EVs.

I think presently our plan is to maybe get an EV as a second vehicle or to look at hybrids more closely. But I'd love to see development around reliability of car batteries in colder weather.

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Anonymous wrote:Widespread EV use will NEVER be a thing unless there is widespread Nuclear facilities, and that would be AWFUL.

This is dumb. Wind and solar and batteries are very capable and mich cheaper than nuclear.

"Batteries spontaniously appear to power things!"
You have to charge EV batteries anon.
E=MC2 and TANSTAFL

Yes wind and solar are the source of new generating capacity that will power the grid but utility scale batteries will store and dispatch that energy to ensure it’s available when needed.

This sounds like it was copied from a corporate advertisement.

If it were true, it would have been fact long ago. It is not true at this time. Perhaps in the future, but not as of yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Widespread EV use will NEVER be a thing unless there is widespread Nuclear facilities, and that would be AWFUL.

This is dumb. Wind and solar and batteries are very capable and mich cheaper than nuclear.

"Batteries spontaniously appear to power things!"
You have to charge EV batteries anon.
E=MC2 and TANSTAFL

Yes wind and solar are the source of new generating capacity that will power the grid but utility scale batteries will store and dispatch that energy to ensure it’s available when needed.

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The main cost of an electric vehicle (EV) is its battery. The high cost of energy-dense batteries has meant EVs have long been more expensive than their fossil fuel equivalents.

But this could change faster than we thought. The world’s largest maker of batteries for electric cars, China’s CATL, claims it will slash the cost of its batteries by up to 50% this year, as a price war kicks off with the second largest maker in China, BYD subsidiary FinDreams.

https://theconversation.com/a-battery-price-war-is-kicking-off-that-could-soon-make-electric-cars-cheaper-heres-how-225165

Goldman also forecasts a 40% reduction in battery pack prices over 2023 and 2024, followed by a continued decline to reach a total 50% reduction by 2025-2026. This reduction in price is because of mass manufacturing, technology improvements(increasing charge density) and reductions in raw materials cost. Major manufacturers(Toyota) are project 750 miles on one charge in a few years.

They are projecting EVs (without subsidies) will be the same cost or less as gas cars in the next year or two with longer range(350-425 miles).

We are looking to get another car this year but now I want to wait.

If there were demand for them, they would not be cutting prices that much.
People are abandoning EV's due to fire and explosion hazard risks.

Do EVs catch fire at a statistically significant higher rate than ICE vehicles?

No remember ICE use gas. One gallon of gas is equal to 14 sticks of dynamite. Much, much more damage in an ICE. 10 gallons of gas is equivalent to 140 sticks of dynamite.

Although they’re relatively rare, electric car fires present a new technical and safety challenge for fire departments. These fires burn at much higher temperatures and require a lot more water to fight than conventional car fires.

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Anonymous wrote:Widespread EV use will NEVER be a thing unless there is widespread Nuclear facilities, and that would be AWFUL.

This is dumb. Wind and solar and batteries are very capable and mich cheaper than nuclear.

"Batteries spontaniously appear to power things!"
You have to charge EV batteries anon.
E=MC2 and TANSTAFL

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Anonymous wrote:Widespread EV use will NEVER be a thing unless there is widespread Nuclear facilities, and that would be AWFUL.

This is dumb. Wind and solar and batteries are very capable and mich cheaper than nuclear.

Anonymous wrote:Widespread EV use will NEVER be a thing unless there is widespread Nuclear facilities, and that would be AWFUL.

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Anonymous wrote:If there were demand for them, they would not be cutting prices that much.
People are abandoning EV's due to fire and explosion hazard risks.

Prices are dropping due to production efficiencies and competition. Moreover, Chinese-manufactured batteries are subject to tariffs in the US so they might be cutting prices to remain competitive in the US. There is plenty of demand for EVs. July was a record month of sales. Fire risks are greatly exaggerated. ICE cars see a higher rate of fires. There is a car-b-que almost every day in DC but they don't get wall to wall coverage like a single EV fire does.

That’s because the firefighters can extinguish the flames.

This is “ripped from the headlines” and sensationalist but also mostly true

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/lHfGBbrq48g

And CHINESE batteries? I don’t trust them to make baby food or lead free toys, so this will be… interesting.

Australia's EV FireSafe, a group funded by the country's department of defense, studied global EV battery fires from 2010 to 2020. The report found that the risk of an electric car battery catching fire was a thousandth of a percent (0.0012%). FireSafe noted that it was difficult to find similar data for internal combustion engine vehicles globally, but based on the reports the group looked at, it estimated fire risk at a tenth of a percent (0.1%).

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Anonymous wrote:If there were demand for them, they would not be cutting prices that much.
People are abandoning EV's due to fire and explosion hazard risks.

Prices are dropping due to production efficiencies and competition. Moreover, Chinese-manufactured batteries are subject to tariffs in the US so they might be cutting prices to remain competitive in the US. There is plenty of demand for EVs. July was a record month of sales. Fire risks are greatly exaggerated. ICE cars see a higher rate of fires. There is a car-b-que almost every day in DC but they don't get wall to wall coverage like a single EV fire does.

That’s because the firefighters can extinguish the flames.

This is “ripped from the headlines” and sensationalist but also mostly true

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/lHfGBbrq48g

And CHINESE batteries? I don’t trust them to make baby food or lead free toys, so this will be… interesting.

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Anonymous wrote:If there were demand for them, they would not be cutting prices that much.
People are abandoning EV's due to fire and explosion hazard risks.

Prices are dropping due to production efficiencies and competition. Moreover, Chinese-manufactured batteries are subject to tariffs in the US so they might be cutting prices to remain competitive in the US. There is plenty of demand for EVs. July was a record month of sales. Fire risks are greatly exaggerated. ICE cars see a higher rate of fires. There is a car-b-que almost every day in DC but they don't get wall to wall coverage like a single EV fire does.