We've written about the impracticality of EVs, called them super golf carts, etc. Today at American Thinker Pete Colan comes up with a new reason to avoid them.
An EV will likely not exceed five digits on the odometer because the cost to replace the battery in the typical 10-year span of a battery life will exceed the vehicle’s resale value, therefore making it economically impractical.
Translation: The cost of a new battery pack will exceed its trade-in value. So if you drive it until the battery pack dies, and it won't run, nobody will buy it except for scrap - pennies on the dollar. And it won't pay you to replace the battery and sell it as even with a new battery it will be worth less than the price of the new battery.
You know the little rechargeable hand vacuums? I always have a couple plugged in at my home to use to pick up small messes. When the batteries die, I throw them away and buy a replacement. They aren't designed to facilitate owner replacement of batteries.
If we treat EVs the same way, drive them till the battery dies and scrap them, which is likely, that has to be net-net worse for the environment than hydrocarbon powered vehicles (gas and diesel).
