Only a bit over 9,000 miles to go before my 2012 Impala hits the 250k mark and I start looking around at my options.
I wish that Chevy still made them.
I broke 150,000 miles a while back on my Impala.
I wasn't out to suggest that was an upper limit. Just a figure I flew with to illustrate my point. An aged vehicle with quite a few miles on it doesn't usually see the owner pay for a very expensive repair like a new engine. It would never...
I imagine a battery failure out of warranty will be like blowing a motor in a gasoline powered car with 120,000 miles on it. You retire it and replace it.
As long as they can get the technology to give a reasonably long life like modern internal combustion engines, it's not going to be much...