| |
| ▲ | Marsymars 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Shouldn't that still be covered under the battery warranty? Related: The problem I have with Fiat is that there's an obvious step to combat the impression of poor reliability/durability: Increase the standard warranty. If Fiat declines to increase the standard warranty, the impression is even worse — it's that they're not increasing the warranty because it isn't financially viable for them to do so, because the reliability is bad and that Fiat can't afford to warranty the cars past 3 years. Compare to e.g. Hyundai with a 10-year/100k-mile powertrain and 5-year/60k-mile general in the USA. Also related: I'm in Canada but looked up Hyundai's USA warranty there just to give more-broadly-applicable numbers. It seems that Fiat's warranty in the US is actually better than in Canada, where it just seems comically low — other than for the high-voltage battery the Fiat 500e new vehicle warranty is lesser of 3-years/37k miles. | | |
| ▲ | TheScaryOne 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | >Compare to e.g. Hyundai with a 10-year/100k-mile powertrain and 5-year/60k-mile general in the USA. Most cars are sold by the first owner between 30,000 and 60,000 miles. Hyundai's warranty is cut in half for the second owner, 5/50k powertrain and 2.5/30k general. There's nothing to cover, so it's basically free to put 10/100k in all of the commercials. | | |
| ▲ | Marsymars 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | If it's basically free, then Fiat should offer it for the 500e, and I might consider buying one. |
|
| |
| ▲ | pink_eye a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | How is all this Battery waste good for the environment? #ElectrifiedEnvironmentalDestruction | | |
| ▲ | beAbU a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Ice car engines also sometimes grenade themselves for no reason sometimes. Same story: too expensive to fix and on cheaper cars that means a write off. Lithium batteries are highly recyclable, so is all the copper in the motor. I can promise you that fiat will never en on a landfill battery and all. | | |
| ▲ | TheScaryOne 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | >Lithium batteries are highly recyclable And fake meat is highly edible. But do many people eat fake meat? No. Do many people recycle lithium ion batteries? Also, no. Less than 5% is the current estimate for what percent of lithium ion batteries is recycled. |
| |
| ▲ | JuniperMesos a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Mostly by replacing the use of a gasoline-burning internal combination engine car. | | |
| ▲ | TheScaryOne a day ago | parent [-] | | And instead moving to a component made of critical raw materials with recycling rates of <5%. | | |
| ▲ | dcferreira a day ago | parent [-] | | I'm curious where you got those numbers from. I did a quick search and find wildly different numbers (depending on method and source, from ~60% to >98%). However I don't find anywhere claiming anywhere near <5%. Can you back that up? Example source of manufacturers claiming >95% [0]. 0: https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-well-can-electric-vehicl... | | |
| ▲ | TheScaryOne 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | "Despite their wide use, it is estimated that only 5% of lithium batteries are currently recycled." https://www.ameslab.gov/news/new-lithium-ion-battery-recycli... | | |
| ▲ | JuniperMesos 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | This is probably because it's not economical to recycle lithium ion batteries, certainly not for the lithium itself. Lithium is an extremely abundant element. If this ever stopped being the case, or if there are other battery components that were scarce enough to make batteries economical to recycle, we'd start doing that. There's no virtue in recycling equipment for recycling's sake alone, we do it in exactly the situations where some raw material in the equipment is expensive enough to justify the cost of the recycling process. | | |
| ▲ | TheScaryOne 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | Your argument can't be both that "the batteries are recyclable" and "well duh no one does it because it doesn't make any money." |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
