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Speaking of being fooled, it will take more than a hot take headline to fool me into watching another Scotty Kilmer video. The guy is a blowhard.
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We had the X3 with the big engine, i just ran it through the bmw build thingy and only added one option for $3800 (roof etc).
Even the smaller engine is well over $900 a month. Now, you won't pay that, you will negotiate down but there $300 leases you people down there talk about, not gonna get you a corolla. Monthly Lease Payment Monthly Lease Payment: Amount owing for one payment transaction $1,207 Province Province: Selected Province. Ontario Term Term: Duration of agreement 48 months Interest Rate Interest Rate: Annual percentage rate being charged as interest. 3.99 % Residual Value Residual Value: Anticipated value of the vehicle at maturity of agreement. $30,549 Down Payment Down Payment: Lump sum amount paid up-front to lower the payment and reduce the amount financed. $0 Trade-in Value Trade-in Value: Value of your trade-in vehicle after payment of amounts owing, if any. $0 Km/Year Km/Year: Average number of kilometres driven per year in agreement. 16,000 km Include Freight & PDI in Payment Include Freight & PDI in Payment: Add freight & PDI into payment to remove amount from the total amount due upon delivery. Yes Include Sales Tax in Payment Include Sales Tax in Payment: Add Sales Tax into payment amount. Yes Monthly Payment Sales Tax $ 139 MSRP MSRP: Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price. $66,250 Options Options: Value of selected vehicle options. $4,795 Freight and PDI $2,480 Delivery Credit Delivery Credit: Amount of delivery credit available to customers on select special offers. $0 Vehicle Price with Options Vehicle Price with Options: MSRP, Options and Freight & PDI (as selected). $73,525 Security Deposit $1,207 First Scheduled Payment $1,207 |
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09-22-2021, 10:32 PM | #52 |
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Not from what I have read. Toyota has been testing them, but they have been running into some hurdles like short life cycle and battery performance in BEV testing. Toyota has recently said solid state batteries will go in hybrids first, where these issues are minimized. Actually read an article a few days ago Ford and BMW will begin solid state pilot production in 2022. Later that year Ford/BMW should get hands on cells to test in automotive applications. Earliest market launch later in the decade. Solid state batteries are coming to BEV's, but years away. I would be very surprised if we see them in the majority of EV's before 2030.
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* purchase price is the price of the car when purchased minus the price of the car when you sell it, or get paid by the insurance company if it is totaled.
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Not really in this instance and for the purposes of this argument. I am doing the same number of miles regardless so miles are irrelevant. So over three years my monthly cost to lease would have been well over $800 and used was around $500.
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I can't stand Scotty Kilmer. That is all.
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Toyota doing a rather poor effort at pretending the reason isn't that it can't currently compete in the space.
https://electrek.co/2019/10/31/toyot...ing-fleet-mpg/ https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/07...he-transition/ But it is being criticized by investors so it is pretending: https://www.reuters.com/business/aut...at-2021-04-19/ |
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He's a fast talker alright and you have to keep up with him as he squeezes his content into a time frame,I find he offers good advice for many things a lot of us take for granted.
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To get back on track with EV, I posted this to my fb wall not long ago. Not sure if I figured everything correctly...
I was just reading that Europe is pushing for all new vehicles to be EV (electric vehicles) by 2035, and how "on-track" Euro manufactures are currently to meet that deadline. I've always been on the fence for EV, I love me some horsepower, but EV has its advantages and can create amazing low end torque. So I decided to start doing some reading about EV sales and lithium mining. Now I’m no expert, and my math may be off, but here is what I found: Current global new vehicle sales hover around 70 million each year. 2020 saw about 64 million sales, which is lower than usual due to the pandemic. About 4% of sales in 2020 were EV with sales at around 3 million. It is estimated that by 2030, EV sales will make up around 31% of all new vehicle sales globally. If we keep all new vehicle sales at 70 million, that means 21,700,000 new EV sales in 2030. That's in increase of just over 2 million EV sales per year for the next 9-10 years. In 2020, lithium mines produced about 82,000 metric tons of lithium, roughly 30,000 tons of that went to EV batteries. Tesla, for example, uses about 10 kilograms of lithium per vehicle. If we use that number across the board for all EV batteries, that means by year 2030 we will require around 217,000 metric tons of lithium for just EV sales. That's an increase of 13,500 tons per year just for vehicles. If we add 50,000 tons as an estimate for other devices (which was the difference in 2020), that puts us at 267,000 metric tons of lithium to mine in 2030. An increase of 18,500 tons per year. In 2015 the US estimated the world has about 365 years' worth of lithium reserve using 2015 rate of 37,000 metric tons per year. We are now at 82,000 tons in 2020-21. We have already doubled our lithium mining in just 5 years. If estimates are correct for 2030, we will reduce our lithium reserves to 50 years supply, but that's only at 31% of vehicle sales being EV. The goal is 100% EV sales eventually, and if it continues to rise at the rate it is expected to, we will deplete out lithium supply in less than 30 years. “But we can recycle lithium batteries”. Yes, we can, but most countries only see about 2-3% of those batteries actually get recycled. The US and Europe sees about 5% get recycled. Batteries are recycled by melting them down and stripping the precious metals away from everything else, which requires a lot of heat (energy) and releases vapors and gases, and right now recycling costs more than mining for new lithium so it’s not a “priority” of battery manufactures because it isn’t cost effective. Lithium mines are not exactly environmentally friendly either, and the bi-product of lithium mining is believed to cause environmental damage to the surrounding area, as farmers in some countries have seen significant crop damage near lithium mines, but these are countries that don’t care and can’t be bothered to do tests and studies to see if the mining is indeed causing these damages. So basically, our solution to cutting emissions and the need to drill for oil before we run out of oil is already on an accelerated track to becoming another depleted resource within our lifetime, and it’s potentially bad for the environment in other ways. But hey, Greta will be happy. I did find that they are developing new types of batteries that are supposed to be overall better for the environment, but they haven’t came up with anything solid yet. |
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No its not, but as of July when I wrote this there wasn't anything else out there ready for production to replace Li for vehicles. There are things in development, so then the question is how easy will it be to use any new battery tech with EV? Will manufactures be able to easily make the switch, or will they have to redesign everything?
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