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Another EV myth bites the dust
One of the most enduring myths the anti-EV brigade like to trot out to anyone thinking of going electric is: “wait until you have to change the battery”. Mysteriously, this dismal band of gloomsters always “know someone who knew someone” who had had to change the battery of their EV, which invariably cost them an arm and a leg, meaning that any saving they might have made was cancelled out.
But a new study on more than 10,000 EVs debunks the myth, along with many others that the traditional automotive industry has spread for years. , and will be reused for other storage applications (and eventually ).
Coinciding with the outcome of , this survey covers a wide range of brands, and , down from the previous 2.3%, while providing a comparison of the degradation curve of each vehicle based on brand and year of manufacture. In other words, vehicles more than 12 years old are still perfectly capable of maintaining around 80% of their average capacity, a perfectly acceptable figure for the vast majority of uses.
The figures are consistent with those experienced by owners of vehicles that have been in use for more…
