The dark side of electric cars.
. But, as one family in St. Petersburg, FL, found out, so are the costs of replacing their batteries.that her used 2014 Ford Focus Electric meant that she could drive herself to school, a suburban rite of passage that many teens are familiar with. Her family shelled out $11,000 for it, and for the initial 6 months, all went well.. "I loved it so much. It was small and quiet and cute. And all the sudden it stopped working.
When the vehicle started giving her a dash alert in March, Siwinski took it to the dealership with the help of her grandfather, Ray Siwinksi. The diagnosis was not good: a battery replacement would be needed. The cost? $14,000, more than she paid for the car in the first place. Even worseFord had discontinued the Focus Electric model four years ago, so the battery wasn't even available anymore.
"If you're buying a new one, you have to realize there is no second-hand market right now because the manufacturers are not supporting the cars," Ray warned the broadcaster.When an EV comes off the road, its batteries are ideally recycled or repurposed. But EV battery manufacturing and recycling infrastructure— outside of China, at least— which exacerbates already existing demands on resources needed to manufacture the batteries.
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