• Chriswild@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    You don’t have to replace the battery every 10 years. LiFePo cells can do more than 3000 cycles before going below 85% rated capacity. CATL has been making these cheaply for years.

    Toyota has been actively sabotaging EV transitions for decades. Of course they’re against the thing they don’t want.

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      8 months ago

      I can currently find exactly zero used cars with a LiFePo battery here. I looked around more and it doesn’t seem to be even used by any car brands that exist here so I have no way to check how expensive a replacement would be. I’m assuming there’s a reason it’s not used but I’m not going to dig into battery research over a lemmy post.

      If those batteries solve all the issues leading to used EVs being feasible then that would be great in about a decade or two if they adobt that right now.