The Future is Electric
The short answer is a lot longer than you would expect. Recent EV batteries are very likely to last longer than the rest of the car. That is, the car body is likely to completely to fall apart before you need a battery replacement.
The Electric Viking go into the details. What he will tell you will probably surprise you even if you have studied all the lab reports. Why? Because lab tests are extreme tests. In real world use, batteries last a lot longer that the lab tests predict.
I learned about this thanks to The Electric Viking and it is likely to mean higher energy density 2170 batteries in Tesla vehicles in the US. What Viking doesn’t cover is […]
Yeah, we know but if you want to know how to really do it, thank Sandy Munro. Grinding the batteries up and separating them into “the black mass” and all […]
Gogoro is in the battery swap business for scooters. They started out in Taiwan and I have had people tell me about all the electric scooters they have seen in […]