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Originally Posted by notorious
Biggest problem I see with Tesla is that battery doesn’t come with lifetime warranty and battery replacement isn’t cheap.
In petrol world 5k to 10k will buy you an excellent car and then annual maintenance budget of 2k will keep the car in great shape pretty much forever.
You can drive Audi for 20-30-40 years with 2k p.a. maintenance budget.
One day Teslas will depreciate to 5k to 10k mark, but when battery fails that’s the end of it. It becomes prohibitively expensive.
And that’s fundamental problem of electric cars.
Electric can’t compete with petrol in cheap segment.
Or am I wrong?
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Yep, you're wrong. Think of the battery in the same way as an engine: how many engines have a 8 year/unlimited mileage warranty, and can reasonably be expected to cover as much as 500k without failing? And then do some reading about how battery failure "myths" are failing to come true. Oh - and EVs are built to make battery swap out in as little as 5 minutes: try doing that with an ICE car
But if you want to buy a cheap car with an engine that'll fail before a Tesla battery does, then go ahead.
PS: there will be a new 25k Tesla next year, so in a few years you'll get your "cheap segment" EV. It was never Musk's strategy to start with cheap cars, but he's getting there (read this:
https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-deux , if you haven't already seen it...)