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Originally Posted by m6-lt1

I don’t think affordability is that big an issue. Have y’all not seen how many pos $60k silverados have been sold lately? You know the ones where the lifters wind up eating the camshaft? There are plenty of people with budgets big enough to buy an ev which seem to be priced 60k on average as well. I also wouldn’t worry about having to pay 10-15k replacing the battery since you’ll wind up paying that to replace the lifters and cam in your 55k+ Silverado/suburban/Yukon.

There was a study released last week that finds most EV batteries will outlive the car.

The Globe and Mail reports that a study done in March by Recurrent Motors Inc. — a Seattle-based battery analysis company — showed that overall, EV batteries are actually very reliable and long-lasting. In fact, they may last longer than the vehicles themselves.

The study took real-world data from 15,000 EVs of various makes and models in the U.S. By linking to the vehicles’ connectivity systems, the company took several battery readings daily, including charging activity, EV battery level, and estimated range.

The data showed that most EVs driven close to 100,000 miles still have at least 90 percent of their original range left.


“I was surprised how well batteries are holding up, and how relatively infrequently batteries are being replaced,” Liz Najman, researcher and marketing manager at Recurrent and the study’s author, told The Globe and Mail. “That was a shock.”

The publication did report, however, that Najman made sure to point out that individual vehicles vary and that Recurrent’s data is constantly evolving. This is mainly because most EVs aren’t that old, with nearly 30 percent currently on the road in the U.S. being sold just last year. The majority of the rest are less than six years old.

In any event, the batteries are warranted for 8 years 100,000 miles. This is longer than most people typically keep their cars.