In a word: rust. We in non-salt areas don't all know how well we have it. I recently changed an exhaust pipe on a 22-year-old Accord using hand-tools. I was able to reuse the original exhaust bolts with the new pipe. I would imagine that most 22-year-old cars in the salt belt already have sunlight peeking through the floorboards, much less have any reusable fasteners.
Tim ----------- On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:59 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:23:01 -0800 (PST) > From: Lawrence Rhodes <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [EVDL] What does "outlast the vehicle" mean regarding > batteries? > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I've heard so many well respected EV experts say the batteries will > outlast the > vehicles. Is that a function of just wanting a new car or actually > wearing out > the body? I drive diesel Mercedes and I can tell you that these 30 year > old > cars are as good or better than what is being made today. I think with the > simplicity of EV's (however the icing on the cake electric everything > complexity > of most new cars might wipe this out)should make bearing replacement > including > bushings the majority of what wears out. The standard should be 30 years > service with moderate repairs. In my experience converting to electric > will > lengthen the life of an auto. That should go for factory electrics too. > My > Aspire has 20 years on the body. I don't see it going downhill anytime > soon. > Lawrence Rhodes.... > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130108/0d3e2706/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
