What about battery life ?
One interesting subject that never seems to get mentioned in all this talk of electric cars is Lithium Ion battery pack life (& servicing).
The crux of it is that Lithium Ion batteries (and others) have a shelf life regardless of how much they are used. Apparently if they are stored at 20C & 100% charge then on average they will loose 20% capacity per year. This loss is speeded up with temperature. But based on this you'd probably be looking at a whole new battery pack after 3 years or maybe 4. If a Li-Ion laptop battery pack costs maybe £60 I dred to think how much a big electric car battery would cost to buy & replace every few years? Might write off the car quite quickly - especially the cheaper cars. Then there is the small point of waste & efficientsy (co2 etc) regarding the disposal & replacement of all those batteries.
Here is a link to the battery info: http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm
Just a thought...
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