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Originally Posted by Patricko
I am not sure what the batteries cost but I have seen "people" quote $20K and $30K (I have no idea what the real number is now and none of us know what it will be in 3 years).
So at $25K for a battery pack and 2.5 years of life at your usage the battery is the same cost as gas.
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Yep, its crazy the expense that goes into the battery packs considering their short life.. but thats not the worst part. Tesla is spposed to be the green car right? anyne care to guess how resource intensive it is to produce the battery packs... and when the packs are used up what do you do with them? li-on batterys are considered hazardous waste and require special cleanup, all of which is *not* considered in the overall cost of ownership (both economic and environmental).
SO you have a battery pack that pollutes an uses *alot* of energy to both create and recycle but you dont see tesla talking about that aspect because its the ugly side of electrics cars.
Honestly if we really want to reduce pollutiona and save energy we are better off using standard grid power to run a plant to produce synthetic gasoline.