I hope Electric Vehicles technology speeds up before 2035
the Range of electric only vehicles suck/Shit resale value/Charging time takes forever /Electric cars are much more expensive /Resale or Cost of battery replacement will be outrageous/Lack of charging stations/Lack of performance
Electric cars are aimed at people who live in cities -- their short range and limited exhaust emissions make them ideal for city people. Sadly, most people who live in cities can't actually use an EV because only a few have a garage in which to charge the car.
So you've bought your electric car, you've had it five years and you're bored with it. It's a simple case of selling it on or trading up, right? Wrong. EV batteries slowly lose their ability to store energy over time. Buyers in the second-hand market will be aware of this and may balk at having to pay through the nose for an EV that's out of warranty and whose battery has lost nearly a third of its storage capacity.
The obvious solution in this case is for owners (or buyers) to replace the battery before a change of ownership, but doing so is hugely expensive. It's estimated that the battery in the Nissan Leaf costs $18,000 . We can't imagine many people will want to spend that sort of cash on a five- or ten-year-old car. The price of a replacement battery will fall over time, but even if it's halved in the next five years, you're still looking at a 5,500 bill plus labour charges.
