How long do electric car battery lasts?
For people who are not experts in the electrical industry, a battery can lasts, minimum eight years, considering a stable battery efficiency not below 70% in the period of installation on the vehicle. Nevertheless, the battery life of an electric car changes depending on the driving style, charging speed, number of charging cycles, temperatures, component quality and other factors. It can therefore be said that eight years is the minimum time of use, but it is a variable measure.
For who is expert in this field, we can talk about measuring the useful life in charging cycles rather than years. How many times a battery can be recharged while maintaining its efficiency? In this case the average is around 1000/1500 cycles.
We talked about battery efficiency...
..but what does this have to do with useful life of a battery?
Efficiency means the ability of the battery to "lasts" over time. Banally we can say that this duration decreases little by little until the kilometres covered by a recharge will be less and less.
Take for example a BMW i3 with an average distance travelled of 250 km for each full of energy and 1000 recharges, this can reach a life of at least 250000 kilometres of its battery until efficiency does not decrease.
What can be done to extend the useful life of batteries?
- Try not to get to the ends of the charge indicator: do not go below 10% and load over 90%
- Use slow charging as much as possible
- Drive in a moderate way
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