Good points.
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Originally Posted by JSH
However the idea is that an EV battery will last the life of the car and then be repurposed into another use. Time will tell if that happens - we are only a decade into EV sales at any scale. With the exception of the Leaf battery life is looking good so far.
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I wonder where one could find a list of EV's and their average battery degradation over the years. I suppose more of that kind of info will come out with time.
I have heard good things of many besides Nissan's batteries too. Time will tell.
My intuition tells me that the batteries in EV's are a lot like cellphone and laptop batteries. Those seem to lose capacity and die after 5 years or so. And they don't sit out in the elements like a car does. That and I've had an impossible time finding decent aftermarket replacement batteries. Half the time they have the same or worse capacity as the aged original and die within months.