Heavy Duty Electric Trucks are Coming...

Kayteg1 wrote:
But then we are talking different technology.
It is like comparing to putting new engine into 10-years old beater.
With old technology replacing the engine will still leave you old transmission, differential, radiator, alternator and other stuff that might fail.
In electric vehicle the battery is basically the only wearable, when electric motors last forever.
So once you replace the batteries and driver seat skin, you have very reliable drive for long time.
At least in theory as life will always come with illogical surprises....

Interesting perspective. The earliest 2011 Leafs (sold in 2010 as model year 2011’s are mostly still on the road. There is a Spanish (Madrid) cab fleet with 2011 Leafs some with more than 250,000 km that are still working on the original battery. Many have lost 40 percent of their capacity as the early battery chemistry was troublesome. If one could buy one of those for say 3000 euros I’m not sure with that kind of mileage it would be worth replacing the battery at 8000 euros. But there are lots of low mileage Leafs in North American and Europe where it may be worth it. Nissan is not allowing larger capacity batteries to be put in but I believe Tesla does. Tesla has a batch of 85 KWH batteries that were troublesome. I believe one can request an upgrade and pay the difference on a warranty change. I might be wrong on the size of the battery affected.

I think most manufacturers have 8 to 10 year warranties limited by a certain amount of degradation.

One of our EV’s is in its 5 th year and the other in its 4th year. We have noticed very little degradation but then again we live in a cooler climate which is generally good for battery health.