How are Lithium Batteries Recycled? Today we find out. Whether its Electric Car batteries, cell phone batteries, or tool batteries the process is all the same. HUGE thanks to Li-Cycle for giving us a tour…
How are Lithium Batteries Recycled? Today we find out. Whether its Electric Car batteries, cell phone batteries, or tool batteries the process is all the same. HUGE thanks to Li-Cycle for giving us a tour…
If you’re talking about replacing the battery in the car because its worn out and no longer usable as a car battery, you’ve likely got 15 or 25 years before you’d need to do that.
Modern liquid cooled EV batteries last a really long time and don’t usually straight up fail, but degrade slowly over time. The oldest batteries like this are usually from circa 2012 or so Tesla cars. I wouldn’t count Nissan Leaf because they were not liquid cooled and we know overheating is the quickest way to degrade a battery.
After 200,000 miles of usage, the battery only degraded 12%. So if you have a battery at new that could go 315 miles on a full charge, after 200,000 miles of usage it can now only go 277 miles on a full charge. Would you replace the battery for only that?
If your commute is 278 miles yeah. /s
This is something I’ve had a really hard time drilling into peoples’ heads. Based on current data, the average EV battery built today wont fail in 10-15 years; they’ll just degrade 10-15%. And yeah, in that time period, at current gas/electricity rates, I’ll have saved $30K in gas alone (I saved 2K last year * 15 years = $30K) and it stands to reason that gas prices will continue to climb. Electricity as well but once it hits 20 cents per kWh for me, I’m getting solar.