Posted by user on May 21, 2009, 1:05 am
Eeyore wrote:
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> vaughn wrote:
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>>> The cost of a replacement battery for the Prius has dropped substantially
>>> from $,500 when it first came out to:
>>>
>>> Gen I Prius (00 – 03 MY) $,299.
>>> Gen II (04 – 08 MY) $,588.
>> As soon as the demand for non-warranty replacement of these batteries
>> increases enough to generate a healthy, competative aftermarket, my opinion
>> is that the price will drop down into the hundreds.
>
> YOU'RE OUT OF YOU MIND !
>
> You can pay hundreds for a heavy duty winter rated starter battery for an ICE.
> Never mind one that gets it somewhere with an electric motor
>
> You're living in fantasy land. Get some scientific knowledge.
>
> Graham
>
More crap out of thin air. I live in Canada where we need cranking amps.
I can get a heavy duty 875-1155 CCA battery here with a nine year
warranty 3-year free replacement and 3-year power assist period for $9.00.
Posted by clare on May 21, 2009, 2:41 am
On Tue, 19 May 2009 08:01:59 -0400, user@domain.invalid wrote:
>Eeyore wrote:
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>> user@domain.invalid wrote:
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>>> Eeyore wrote:
>>>> vaughn wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I proved my point,in the EU and North America families have two cars.
>>>>> No you didn't "prove" anything of the sort, but you did establish
>>>>> something about norms.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Explain how that "doesn't really help" in the context of having both an
>>>>>> ice and a EV.
>>>>> Because the American family is probably not a 1-job/1-wage family, and not
>>>>> even necessarily a nuclear family. Families can be complex things that
defy
>>>>> concepts like "norms". The strategy of owning an EV car for commuting &
>>>>> local use and a separate ICE car for occasional use & trips may actually
fit
>>>>> amazingly few real-life situations. One size does not fit all!
>>>> But he doesn't want to hear that.
>>>>
>>>> The public will simply not buy 'inflexible' cars unless they're wealthy
enough
>>>> to have one dedicated as a 'shopping trolley'.
>>> They will when the price drops and the range improves. Right now in my
>>> area electric scooter ($00.00- $500.00) sales have taken off.
>>
>> A scooter isn't a car.
>>
>> Graham
>>
>>
>No but the technology is the same, and bringing battery costs down due
>to mass production.
Technolgy is the same???
Cheapest possible construction Chinese junk for the majority of the
electric scoots. When they stop they are generally not worth fixing.
The batteries used in most of them are the same as used in emergency
lighting and UPS systems and have an extremely limited life.
A FEW are now coming with Lithium packs.
Posted by Eeyore on May 18, 2009, 4:47 pm
user@domain.invalid wrote:
> LOL, when cornered spin and squirm is all you do. The facts are the
> average American, Canadian and EU families have more than one vehicle.
That is far from true. I know people who have NO cars.
Graham
Posted by user on May 18, 2009, 6:12 pm
Eeyore wrote:
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> user@domain.invalid wrote:
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>> LOL, when cornered spin and squirm is all you do. The facts are the
>> average American, Canadian and EU families have more than one vehicle.
>
> That is far from true. I know people who have NO cars.
>
> Graham
>
With all due respect, you are wrong. I suggest you do a little research
and quite basing your viewpoint on what you see out your front window.
Out my window I have neighbors with five cars in the drive, the guy next
store has two, the couple on the other side of me have two, across the
road they have three. On my street my driveway is the only one with a
single car in it. Does it mean what I see out my window is the norm? no
it doesn't and neither does the view out of yours.
Posted by Eeyore on May 19, 2009, 1:59 am
user@domain.invalid wrote:
> Eeyore wrote:
> > user@domain.invalid wrote:
> >
> >> LOL, when cornered spin and squirm is all you do. The facts are the
> >> average American, Canadian and EU families have more than one vehicle.
> >
> > That is far from true. I know people who have NO cars.
> With all due respect, you are wrong. I suggest you do a little research
> and quite basing your viewpoint on what you see out your front window.
> Out my window I have neighbors with five cars in the drive
That's because you're a big fat American and you build vast houses because
you have lots of land.
Only a few houses in my road even have drives because in the 1880/90s they
didn't need them. Even new build houses tend not to have them in order to
pack as many houses into the space available.
You are SO out of touch with the rest of the world.
Graham
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> vaughn wrote:
>
>>
>>> The cost of a replacement battery for the Prius has dropped substantially
>>> from $,500 when it first came out to:
>>>
>>> Gen I Prius (00 – 03 MY) $,299.
>>> Gen II (04 – 08 MY) $,588.
>> As soon as the demand for non-warranty replacement of these batteries
>> increases enough to generate a healthy, competative aftermarket, my opinion
>> is that the price will drop down into the hundreds.
>
> YOU'RE OUT OF YOU MIND !
>
> You can pay hundreds for a heavy duty winter rated starter battery for an ICE.
> Never mind one that gets it somewhere with an electric motor
>
> You're living in fantasy land. Get some scientific knowledge.
>
> Graham
>