The Facts Are In: You Shouldn’t Worry About EV Battery Replacements. New research shows that it’s extremely uncommon to have to replace a modern electric car’s battery. Moreover, the technology has only gotten more reliable over time, and it’ll likely keep getting better.

https://insideevs.com/news/779210/ev-battery-replacements-data-tesla/

by mafco

12 comments

  2. ‘Only 0.3% of batteries in EVs sold after 2022 have had to be replaced, outside of major recalls, Recurrent says.’

    Cool. Also thoroughly irrelevant to the question of how batteries will age and perform at 10, 15, or 20 years old. More than half of cars in the US are 14+ years old. I expect and hope that batteries will outlast cars, but the fact that failures of brand new ones are rare is no guarantee of that.

  4. This is of course good news, but it only addresses premature failures, what is essentially manufacturing defects.  The article doesn’t make any robust predictions about calendar aging, which will be much more interesting in the decades to come.

  5. If you are concerned about your EV battery just wearing out, CATL predicts their sodium ion batteries will last 10,000 cycles, or about 30 years for most people. Their Naxtra battery packs are expected to have 500 km range and go into production in 2026 on existing lines. So the battery will last longer than the body, and you could probably sell it or repurpose it as wall storage. https://www.catl.com/en/news/6401.html

  6. Vancouver BC here. Used Tesla batteries better than 90% capacity left sell for $2000-$4000 CAD. on facebook marketplace. ($1500-$3000 USD)

    They are piling up at the auto wreckers. Nobody needs them. One shop is offering batteries installed for $4300 CAD installed including coolant and programming.

    If you want to know if anything is reliable or not, just look at the auto wreckers or Ebay prices. Transaxles for a 2017ish Ford Escape? Unobtainable. Engines for BMW cars or motorcycles? All gone. KTM engines? Gone. Japanese motorcycle engines? Everywhere and dirt cheap because nobody needs them. Same for
    EV batteries. There is a glut of used, unsold batteries. Crashed vehicles supply used parts reliably and at a steady rate.

  7. We’re just about at a point now where EV batteries are something that gets transferred to your new car when sheets of rusted metal start falling off the old one.

    The latest batteries were defective if you needed to replace them.

  8. The article arrives at the conclusion because “Only 0.3% of batteries in EVs sold after 2022 have had to be replaced, outside of major recalls, Recurrent says.”.
    By the same logic the best runners can do 100m in 10 seconds, so they can do 1km in 100 seconds and 10km in under 17 minutes.

  9. Every baby boomer is screaming get off my gas car lawn right now LOL 😂

  10. Exactly. And the same thing can be said about all renewable technologies. They will just keep getting better and more efficient and much more seamless to use.

  11. Most Gen 1 Prius batteries outlasted the car, though most of them are still on the road.

  12. The used EV is massively undervalued right now because the general public doesn’t believe this.

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