What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the World
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#2Paywall
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#3> Price of an electric car powertrain:
$16,000
> Price of a conventional car powertrain: $6,000
Can anyone provide a better source for this?
This is exactly the opposite of what I expected. I thought electric powertrains had far fewer (in the hundreds, even) moving parts?
Edit: Coffee hasn't kicked in yet. As user analognoise points out, this is literally answered by the sentence that follows the above: How soon that day arrives is almost solely a function of the price of batteries.
Re: What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the World
#4> Price of an electric car powertrain: $16,000 > Price of a conventional car powertrain: $6,000 Can anyone provide a better source for this? This is exactly the opposite of what I expected. I thought electric powertrains had far fewer (in the hundreds, even) moving parts? Edit: Coffee hasn't kicked in yet. As user analognoise points out, this is literally answered by the sentence that follows the above: How soon that…
Batteries aren't cheap.
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#5The lithium may not be that much of a problem if existing aged batteries can have the lithium in them recycled.
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#6> Price of an electric car powertrain: $16,000 > Price of a conventional car powertrain: $6,000 Can anyone provide a better source for this? This is exactly the opposite of what I expected. I thought electric powertrains had far fewer (in the hundreds, even) moving parts? Edit: Coffee hasn't kicked in yet. As user analognoise points out, this is literally answered by the sentence that follows the above: How soon that…
Almost all of that is the battery. Even though batteries are coming down in price, they are still very expensive.
For example GM’s list price for the Bolt battery is $15,734. Now this is the replacement cost Bolt owners pay for a new battery not the actual cost, but it gives an indication of their cost.
https://electrek.co/2017/06/12/gm-bolt-ev-battery-pack-price...
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#7"CARMAKERS’ ANNUAL PROFIT:
$400 billion"
This seems hard to believe. Revenue, maybe?
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#8The lithium may not be that much of a problem if existing aged batteries can have the lithium in them recycled.
Once the whole world has converted to electric cars, perhaps, but in the near future vast quantities of lithium will be needed to increase the number of electric cars.
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#9"CARMAKERS’ ANNUAL PROFIT: $400 billion" This seems hard to believe. Revenue, maybe?
$400 billion / ~80 million passenger cars per year would be $5000 per car.
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#10"CARMAKERS’ ANNUAL PROFIT: $400 billion" This seems hard to believe. Revenue, maybe?
Gross profit, maybe.
Toyota alone reported $43 billion gross profit on $247 billion revenue.