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2024-05-01 Science & Technology

The used electric car timebomb - older EVs could be hard to sell because batteries aren't guaranteed

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-01 00:06|| || Front Page|| [228 views ] Top

#1 And replacing the battery is worth more than the car is at that point.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-05-01 01:46|| 2024-05-01 01:46|| Front Page Top

#2 You can have a lot of fun with metallic lithium. (also with lithium chloride)

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-05-01 07:11|| 2024-05-01 07:11|| Front Page Top

#3 This is refered to as a sunk cost. (hee hee hee)
Don't mean to give anyone ideas about driving a fully insured EV into a flood retention pond. No.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-05-01 08:49|| 2024-05-01 08:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Are you one of the cool kids making organolithiums or birch reductions at home, Grom?

Posted by Mullah Richard 2024-05-01 08:51|| 2024-05-01 08:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Are you one of the cool kids making organolithiums or birch reductions at home, Grom?

Nope. But I was a lab instructor in physical chemistry while doing M.Sc in Biochem - and you have to impress the kiddies (LiCl in another context)

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-05-01 09:35|| 2024-05-01 09:35|| Front Page Top

#6 I wonder how Hertz is doing trying to sell those Teslas that no one wanted rent?

Posted by EMS Artifact 2024-05-01 10:04|| 2024-05-01 10:04|| Front Page Top

#7 An EV demolition derby would be spectacular.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-05-01 10:28|| 2024-05-01 10:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Park all new unsold plus used but not salable EV's in DC or at FJB's home. Then wait.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2024-05-01 14:07|| 2024-05-01 14:07|| Front Page Top

#9 @6 Very poorly. Hertz just took a big write-down on the value of their fleet, and their post-bankruptcy stock is down 80% or so.

Posted by Nero 2024-05-01 15:32|| 2024-05-01 15:32|| Front Page Top

#10

Posted by Sloluth Sheling6069 2024-05-01 16:08|| 2024-05-01 16:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Pic a nym and stick with it, troll

Posted by Frank G 2024-05-01 18:26|| 2024-05-01 18:26|| Front Page Top

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