lithium ion battery pack Electric car owners may face £19,000 battery charge

According to data from The Times, the world's top car Nissan Leaf has a new battery
The cost of selling electric vehicles is more than twice what was estimated in the past.
The disclosure could mean a shift from fossil fuel to electric vehicles would be much slower than the government had predicted, the paper said.
However, the data does suggest that car owners of electric vehicles will save money as gasoline costs rise.
Only 680 electric vehicles have been purchased so far this year, although 2011 have been declared the "year of electric vehicles" in the UK ".
The government offered £ 43 million and offered a purchase price of £ 8,600 to 5,000 electric vehicle buyers.
Nissan acknowledged that owners of the Leaf, which sells for £ 26,000 after government approval, may need to replace the battery in a few years, depending on how the battery is handled, the Times reported.
The capacity of the battery can be greatly reduced, if the owner repeatedly use fastcharge point.
In the latest episode of Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson was shown a power outage and had to be pushed to the center of Lincoln, where there were no public charging points.
Andy Palmer, senior vice president, Nissan GB
The president told the newspaper that the lithium-ion battery consists of 48 modules.
He said that the replacement cost per battery was 404 and the replacement cost for the entire battery pack was 19,392.
Most car owners don't need new batteries for at least a decade, he said, because electric cars should be used mainly for short trips.