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But how much are you going to pay to replace the battery?
by mrfusion 8y ago
But how much are you going to pay to replace the battery?
- steelframe 8y agoThere's tons of data on EV batteries from the past 5+ years. At least for Tesla, battery degradation is not a problem.
- toomuchtodo 8y agohttps://cleantechnica.com/2018/04/16/tesla-batteries-have-90-capacity-after-160000-miles-may-last-for-500000-miles/ https://cleantechnica.com/2018/04/16/tesla-batteries-have-90... "Actual Tesla owners report about a 5% drop in battery capacity by the 50,000 mile mark but after than, the rate of degradation drops considerably. On average, cars with 160,000 miles on them still have 90% of their battery capacity remaining. Projecting forward from the real world data available, a Tesla battery should still have 80% battery capacity after 500,000 miles of driving, the group claims. The vast majority of internal combustion engines would have stopped functioning long before then." Assuming a conservative usage of 20k miles/year, it will take you 25 years to reach 500k miles.
- vvanders 8y agoI'm at 85k miles and still going strong so I'm not worried.