You're welcome. We were very fortunate to have Dr. Dahn join us.

Agreed! I think that eventually, consumers will become more knowledgeable.

@@Stayhungry-N-Stayfoolish Thanks for watching and supporting our channel. We will be doing more on batteries in 2025.

I believe he meant that for average drivers, the car will wear out before the battery ever needs to be replaced. 'Calendaric' degradation is definitely a subject we should raise with Jeff next time.

Agreed. And I'm sure this is only the beginning of what we will see develop in terms of sustainable living and the integration of EVs into our lives. Inductive car charging was not specifically mentioned but I'm sure they anticipate it.

Thanks for sharing this. Very encouraging to see.

Good point. I hope it was a virtual background.

I had one contactor fail back in 2013 (Tesla). As you say, they simply replaced the switch. Have not heard of anyone needing a battery replacement for this reason. The minimum 8 year warranty should also be a source of confidence.

@ that’s Tesla. Every other BEV manufacturer changes the battery. Maybe Kia can change the actuator, but Mercedes and BMW definitely change the battery pack

@Alex_at89 Again, I haven't heard about this being an issue with any EVs. Is it a frequent problem with Mercedes and BMW? Wouldn't the warranty still apply?

@ no it’s not frequent, I only know about the one EQV, it was out of warranty due to driven Kilometers, but Mercedes offered to replace the battery pack at I think 90/10% cost share

Is it the book that you are trying to order? BTW, I am with EVS and would be glad to help.

I agree. The best way to manage car 'road tax' would be by vehicle weight, regardless of the powertrain. I believe that suggestion was made at some point in the full webinar.

If you have a LFP battery in your car, I'm sure Jeff would say 90% or higher would be no problem and the cold temps actually help. Even a lithium battery can be kept at cold temps... it actually helps but I still don't think he would recommend long periods above 90% SOC.

@@ElectricVehicleSociety Thanks. It's just that when he talked about SOC being no problem in cold temps, it seemed to be in the context of low SOC. I'd really like solid confirmation whether or not the issues with higher SOCs are or are not mitigated by cold weather (when the car is not being used).

@@TomTWalker I hope to have him back again in the new year so let's try and remember to ask this question specifically.

What makes you think they are so bad?

@@EVDiscoveries 1. because the government is forcing them on everyone. 2. our electrical grid is already in trouble. 3. they are driving everyone's car and home insurance premiums up. 4. they are a fire hazard and can't be extinguished. 5. when the battery reaches EOL the entire car will end up in the scrap yard. 6. they are very expensive to repair and very few shops can even work on them. 7. they cause more road damage and eat tires up. and this is just a short list of the problems.

@@rpsmith You might want to look into it a bit further. 1. 1he government isn't forcing anyone to drive an ev. You want a gas car? Drive a gas car. 2. Electrical grid will be supported and stabilized by EVs (look up V2G). 3. EVs are safe and do not drive up insurance rates. Not sure where that idea even comes from? 4. Gas cars catch fire at a rate of 1,529 fires per 100,000 vehicles, compared to 25 fires per 100,000 EVs. When it does happen, yes they are harder to extinguish. New EV batteries will be even safer. 5. End of life? Over 95% of battery materials are recovered profitably and used for new batteries. You burn oil once. 6. EVs are far, far cheaper to maintain. No changing oil, filters, spark plugs, transmission fluid , radiator coolant and brakes last a very long time etc. 7. EVs do NOT cause excessive road damage. The most popular selling EV weighs less than an F-150 (the most common vehicle ever). and these are only a few of the benefits to EV ownership. Hope this helps.

Battery warranties are already better than combustion engine warranties. They are a minimum of 8 years!

I sometimes hear that someone doesn't want to be inconvenienced by having to wait for a charge on the road. I usually say one of two things: 1) I explain that the average person spends 8 hours per year holding on to a gas pump nozzle (US data). Are they willing to make numerous trips to the gas station to save the odd charge on the road, which typically only takes 20 minutes or so? 2) To save the odd inconvenience, are you willing to contribute to the problem that is putting thousands of people with chronic breathing issues in the hospital, where some don't even survive?

@johnmoniz3169 I agree with your points. For me I just tell them it's a different way of refueling and it needs to be treated as such much more like a cell phone or a laptop then say your older ice car. And yes it does take a while to charge using level 1 specially and even level 2 depending on how you manage your battery during the week,, but typically you really don't want to discharge your battery all the way down to 20% or lower you want to keep it to be shallow charges again similar to how I use a cell phone. So I plug in at night and don't think about it until the next day or I might go to a 2 days without charging and in charge of a destination. Once you get used to the new way of charging and fueling your vehicle you really will get past the whole range anxiety concept and it won't be that much of a big deal. And you are correct after decades of driving in cars for my job that requires me to be on the road a lot and also in modifying my previous cars where you know sometimes they were fumes that came into the cabin now that I drive an EV it's kind of like when I quit smoking and I realize how much damage I've done to myself and everyone around me with the exhausting fumesbut they can be clean and cleaner when you consider that they get cleaner as the grid gets cleaner. So rather than dealing with the oil lobbies which are really hard to negotiate with as they pretty much owned congress, there's more of a chance for consumers to press energy companies to become cleaner to invest more into the infrastructure which they have been doing for decades

Tinfoil hats work too (-;

@@EVDiscoveries The TF hats have more style

Very good advice!

Hi @steelbruin1 Could you reach out to Tim Burrows at EV Society for a update on our myth contest?

Excellent. Looking forward to it.

@@ElectricVehicleSociety I just sent the mail. Thank you again for all of the great content.

Well, I hope you will take a moment to give us your best 'come back' to some of those. You could be helping others understand the facts.

I had a past co-worker tell me that it costs more to run my ioniq-6 than his small gas car. I told him I can plug in at home overnight on a 110 plug in and it costs me $1.40 to get enough "fuel" to drive for 2 days. That works out to about 15 km for you.

Agreed! We feel the same way and hope to have him back in 2025.

Good catch. Yes, it looks like a typo.

Excellent question. For now, I think the manufacturer will provide this information, but it might take a little effort by the consumer to get it.

It’s certainly disappointing that Ford has had to scale back its electric pickup rollout. I hope they can turn that around soon.

They’ve recently left Alaska and you could ask them yourself on the webinar.

That is certainly an option that is available to everybody... but then remember you will need to deal with a few other 'headaches' like oil changes, oil filter replacements, spark plug replacements, fuel filter replacements, air filter replacements, timing belt replacements and potentially other serpentine & drive belt replacements. Since you will be paying more than 4 times as much to fuel your car, you will want to keep that engine properly tuned.

@ Pure nonsense. I have a maintenance package on my Hemi for ten years. Plus there’s no risk of it burning my house down while I sleep. Not to mention now that I’ve replaced my ECM and BCM with something aftermarket nobody can remotely shut my veg off against my will. Get lost with your idiocy.

Exactly!

We did have coffee mate...I think that's petroleum based??

@@richardivity8548 A delicious edible oil product!

Absolutely!

Thanks. I'm still new at creating these 'shorts'.

@@EVDiscoveries 🤣🤣🤣

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