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Can't see it - it's not like a bet... the odds are very calculable and will hit everyone. Insurance works for rare, large, hard to calculate eventualities which benefit from shared risk amongst many punters.
What you want is for it to be a legal requirement for manufactures to recycle/repurpose after some level of degradation or being out of date; with trade-in or buyback.
That should be true for all electronics, electric motors and batteries... And we're slowly getting there.
 
Top end Tesla batteries are about £15k, less high performance ones about £10k. They have an expected life of 10-20 years, so that doesn't mean that the cars will be scrap at 10 years, but that from 10 years old they will have a declining battery performance and therefore value. End of life vehicle batteries are not without use, so will have some value to partly mitigate the high cost of replacement.
What about the labour cost? BMW man told me the i3 has 96 battery cells, each one has to be individually installed during the replacement process. That's why the lowly i3 battery is £20,000 to replace.
 
What about the labour cost? BMW man told me the i3 has 96 battery cells, each one has to be individually installed during the replacement process. That's why the lowly i3 battery is £20,000 to replace.
He's having you on. This is a picture of an i3 battery. A day's labour to swap over at most, say £1,000.

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Yes, absolutely, but then how many new "service stations" would we need?
Your right it is all about the infrastructure and this would take time to build and then the government would want their cut in the way of tax, so it might work but were years away from this at the moment.
 
Each of the eight modules has twelve cells inside - 96 individual batteries:

Indeed, but they come as one pack which gets bolted in as one. You replace the pack, not the individual cells one at a time. In the same way, the Tesla big battery has over 8000 cells, but they're not individually replaced. I think in the Tesla battery they come in banks of 512, so in the biggest battery version there are 16 banks.
 

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