Tesla Owner: "My car is only 5 years old and the battery went bad! What do you mean that you no longer have a replacement OEM battery that fits my year model??? "
All Tesla batteries are are a mountain of Panasonic 18650s bunched together. They're slightly larger than an AA battery.
If your battery dies, order thousands of them from Ebay and the family Christmas can be spent with everyone stuffing them into the battery tray. Should be done by New Year.
The battery longevity stats are actually seriously impressive. There are 200,000 mile cars with about 85% capacity left.
That may be true, but I still think until the whole EV industry standardizes on components like standard batteries, EV cars will kinda remain "throwaway" vehicles. Because of the fast turnover of the still evolving technologies.
Not like my classic truck that is 48 years old, runs like a champ, and still has parts and components that are easily available.
It's the software side of things that's more of a concern, especially if your car is 'blacklisted' for a non official repair. I don't think people will take too kindly to the cloud esque form of 'ownership' compared to the traditional one when it comes to cars.
Yep, that is a very serious concern.