Electric Car Battery Anxiety Is Unfounded, Study Shows
Fear of having to replace an electric vehicle's battery is real but largely unwarranted. Over 30,000 cars analyzed in recent years demonstrate that batteries last much longer than people think.Only 4% of the vehicles studied have had to change their battery due to loss of capacity over time. This analysis comes from Recurrent, a firm specializing in electric vehicle data analysis. In their previous study in 2023 with a smaller sample size of 15,000 cars, they found similar results.The German Automobile Club (ADAC) has noted that the batteries in plug-in hybrid Mercedes vehicles degrade less compared to those from Mitsubishi. With updated data on over 30,000 electric cars, the analysis still shows a very low battery replacement rate—less than 4%. This includes older models with more than te...