That's what a replacement battery for a Lexus will cost.

True, the battery is guaranteed for 8 years or 160,000 kilometres, but according to the News national motoring editor, the average age of the Australian fleet is 10 years.

And, what about people who have to buy used cars? Not a Lexus, perhaps, but 8 other manufacturers didn’t respond when asked the same question that Lexus was asked.

EV enthusiast, energy minister Bugs Bowen has not mentioned this cost. Perhaps, like most people he isn't aware of it - like so many other things hidden by the yabber when it comes to electric vehicles.

ttbn,
Bugs Bowen wouldn't even know that normal people have to earn then pay !
And, normal people aren't employed in the Public Service as he has been all his life !
Silly sod hasn't a clue !

Indyvidual

Unfortunately, what you rightly say about Bowen is true of far too many of our politicians - on both sides of the fence.

The whole battery electric car scam is simply a way to get the less wealthy of us back on the bus, & out of personal transport. Old petrol powered cars are much more suitable for us peasants.

For example my good car is a 1980 Triumph TR7. I bought 2 of these, not running in 2002 for $1200 the pair. One was rust free in good condition, but a totally shot engine & other mechanicals, the other had many good parts in a rusty body.

I totally re-built the brakes on the rust free car, fitted the good mechanical parts, plus some new parts & had a reliable car. A mate splashed a coat of paint on it for $1200 & for under $6,000 I had a great little sports car. 70,000 kilometers & 20 years later it is still as new.

2016 I bought an insurance write off, [hail damaged] 2002 low mileage Mazda SP20 for $3000 at auction. The damage is minor & after a polish she looked pretty good. It does shopping trolley duties, & is used around the paddocks. It has given 60,000 trouble free kilometers.

My biggest expense is tyres. I only use top quality tyres, & throw them out at 6 years old, no matter how little worn. I like a good grip on the road.

There is no way you could do this with battery cars, the costs would be 1000% higher at least, for no advantage, & I'd be robbing our flora of some food.

Hasbeen has a point.

How many people remember the days when very few ordinary families had a car. I do. We could well be heading back to those days.

ttbn,
I remember those days very well; it wasn’t until post war, in 1948 that my father bought a car, a 1928 Chev 4 tourer which we used up until 1955 when I got a 1937 La Salle..
Pre car days and many years after we used public transport, the local bus company provided a half hour service, like clockwork to Lidcome station where there was a train every quarter-hour, once one was in Sydney city there were trams galore going to nearby suburbs and to all the main beaches.
Getting around was easy and fairly quick and cheap and what’s more one didn’t need to find a parking spot.