Interesting read below about battery replacement cost of a 2014 Ford Focus EV.

I won't summarize any bullet points of the article as that did not sponsor constructive discussion recently.

Link: https://www.foxbusiness.com/technolo...re-vehicle.amp

EDIT: This article was on my news feed this morning and is on FOX Business. So, if you prefer not to visit FOX for personal reasons, please do not click on the link.

 

“News” stories like this always leave me shaking my head. I can’t recall a major news network writing up other anecdotes of 8-year-old vehicles with major component failures. Heck, we saw more than a handful of under-warranty 6.7L PSD failures within the first few years of its introduction that were blamed for bad fuel. A $16K repair, and many hapless owners were still making huge payments for new-ish trucks. That wasn’t newsworthy for some reason.

The young lady in the article is in an unfortunate position, but the Focus Electric is about as close to the Lightning as a 1994 Powerstroke is to a 6.7L truck. They’re apples and oranges, which is made worse by the fact that the Focus Electric was a half-hearted effort at a compliance car. That doesn’t help the owner with a major bill, but I’ve never heard anyone in the EV community recommend buying a Focus Electric, now or years ago. It was a horrible choice in 2014 when it was new, and even worse now.

Compliance cars are still around, but the majority of them are a lot better. The Mazda CX-30 EV is a repeat of the same theme…an awful vehicle that nobody in their right mind would own. Mazda didn’t bother putting in even a halfhearted effort with the design, and it’s uncompetitive at any price point. This is not the car you’d want to be responsible for 8 years from now.

 

I agree with 100% of this and almost didn't post a link or mention the article due to FOX being the source and the EV being a 2014. It is not that I don't trust FOX, I don't trust ANY news source wholeheartedly.

I did create a post though as it provides a snapshot of how far things have come in less than a decade. Take the 2012 Nissan Leaf with a range of 40 miles our friends recently adopted for example. Both the Focus and Leaf of yesteryear are junk compared to a modern day EV.

Despite the vast differences, I thought the article was worth a quick read and others may have the same opinion, so I posted it here and went on with my day.

 

Back in 2006, I bought a 2007 Escape Hybrid.
I can't tell you how many warnings I heard about the cost of a battery failure!
January 2018 and 353,000 miles later, the tranny began to slip.
Battery was fine, Hybrid system was fine.

 

This is good, first hand information.

Did you seen any degradation or charge capacity in the battery system? Perhaps there was not a measurable value viewable in the information center by the customer at the time.

 

There was no change with the function of the hybrid system. It may have been nearing the end of its life, but there was no way to tell.

 

Saying goodbye!