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[–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

All excellent information. Thank you so much! That's really cool about the individual cell replacement. I thought that was still on the horizon! The future can be very cool.

This is sounding more and more like a good idea. Especially with how fast this 15 gallon tank is dropping every week...

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    To give you a little more info as you seem genuinely interested.

    • Taking the battery size in kWh and multiplying by 3 or 4 will give you a rough range in miles. Big heavy cars will be more like 3 miles per kWh. Small cars will be closer to 4.
    • My 2017 BMW i3 (34kWh, tiny battery by today's standards) still gets 100-120 miles and it's coming up for 9 years old. That's why I say 45 miles won't be a problem.
    • As somebody else stated, some more modern cars are making the battery less serviceable. Tesla's especially, but others too. Fact is batteries have lasted longer than we expected a decade ago so manufacturers aren't prioritising making them a serviceable component. That's good and bad.
    • The exception is when the battery isn't cooled properly. Nissan leafs suffer with huge battery damage because the leaf didn't cool it's batteries during charging.
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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Thank you for the tips! Especially the quick offhand battery / range formula.

    Yeah, I'm definitely looking into this. I'm mainly worried about all the nonsense with only having the 2016 CRV for like 2 years and making payments on it.

    It's a good car. I just really can't stand another $2000 maintenance bill on top of skyrocketing insurance and gas... I'm hoping we're not "upside down" on the loan but I've never tried to do this before so I really gotta be careful with how many gotchas I imagine there are with this process...

    (Ugh. Dealers suuuuck...)

    The 2021 Chevy Bolt has my eye, though. It seems really roomy for being a small platform and the range is pretty great! I'm at least gonna go try and test drive one. They're running for roughly $17k, which is what I got our CRV for...

    If it lasts even 5 years with all those reduced costs, it feels like it'll be pretty worthwhile...

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