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Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM (arstechnica.com)
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Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM::The platform was to use GM's Ultium batteries.

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[โ€“] LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't buy a 60k vehicle. Batteries are more like 15k installed. Those reports of 30k batteries are edge cases.

[โ€“] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Also EV batteries have a life expectancy of 200k miles. Most people consider 100k to be a cars retirement age, so I think the battery problem isn't as big of an issue as we think. Your car is statistically likely to be worn down or wrecked by that amount of mileage.