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What wears out first in an electric car is the battery, I would assume.
by toxik 5y ago
What wears out first in an electric car is the battery, I would assume.
- imtringued 5y agoTheir failure mode is continuous though and the bigger the battery, the smaller the absolute impact of wear. What people fail to grasp is that yes right now batteries may only go up to 200 miles for an affordable EV but if EVs had the same range as ICE cars then their useful lifespan would be even longer than it is right now.
- waiseristy 5y agoI would probably assume it would be ball joints, bushings, bearings, AC components, seals, body corrosion, paint, or something similar. An ICE vehicle with 300,000 miles on it is usually only still on the road because the motor works. Everything else is usually completely shot
- reportingsjr 5y agoIt is unlikely that the battery would wear out faster than other key components in an EV or hybrid. There is plenty of real world data from tesla model S owners showing that the batteries easily last more than 200k miles, which is about how long cars in the US last before getting scrapped. https://maartensteinbuch.com/2015/01/24/tesla-model-s-battery-degradation-data/ https://maartensteinbuch.com/2015/01/24/tesla-model-s-batter... The same is more or less true for Priuses, their batteries last around 150-200k miles.
- toxik 5y agoWhat I take from that graph is that there is not enough data to say what happens beyond 50k miles.
- reportingsjr 5y agoReally? The data in the second graph appears to corroborate with the testing graphs that Tesla themselves have released, which is what the first graph is.