Clean Tech News & Views: EVs, Solar Energy, Batteries
The general public is struggling to cast off misinformation that promotes fear, uncertainty, and doubt about electric vehicles.
Chemistry 101. Most drivers of ICE vehicles think that the batteries in an EV have the same chemistry as the batteries that run their starter motor — good ol’ lead acid. These often have to be changed every two or three years. Explaining that, no, the batteries in the EV are more like the ones in your iPhone or iPad doesn’t really help, because Apple encourages us to throw these appliances away and buy a new one every few years.
The Recurrent Auto research seems to indicate that EV batteries have a much longer lifespan than even the carmakers imagined. The comment “since very few of them have been replaced, even once the 8-year, 100,000-mile warranty period ends” assumes that a product only lasts as long as the warranty. This assumption underpins the questions from the general public mentioned above. For some reason, they expect the battery to have to be replaced at 100,00 miles or 8 years of use.
Early model Tesla Model S sedans with smaller batteries also appear to have experienced very little degradation, according to the research from Recurrent Auto.
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