It’s the same chemistry in most cases. So depending upon conditions between 5-15 years.
What’s the Lifespan of a Solar Battery?
If the aim is to get activity…
Then First things First
Rant mode ON!
STOP CALLING THEM EVs!! They are B.E.Vs. Battery Electric Vehicles. Even more so Li-ion Battery Electric Vehicles. It irks me because well we instantly think of Tesla cars. Electric cars have over a century of history. The first official electric car dates to 1884 with previous attempts going back to atleast 1834.
Primitive BEVs were operating as taxi cabs in major cities at the turn of the 20th century. Yes BEV Taxi cabs in New York and London in the 1900s!
So it’s really not EVs that are new it’s the
battery chemistry. My European friends you should know this better than I. Because you probably have ridden in a EV a large fast EV that carries hundreds at a time across countries. Where in have only twice and only a few dozen miles before they switched to a Hybrid. I am talking about Electric Locomotives, Trains and Trollies. They have a history just as long as electric cars and well in the US and Canada they fell out of favor in Europe and Asia they remain strong.
Rant Off.
Really Batteries are just a storage medium and one that has limits. The chemistry deteriorates we know that.
BEVs are subject to those limits and it’s often the case that when those limits come into effect the BEV is on its third owner. Said owner then has a choice. Live with vehicle with less and less range or try and sell it to the next sucker.
The third option in theory be to replace the battery but it’s often the case that the battery pack replacement costs more than the car’s value.
Electric Car Battery Replacement Costs
Some makers are and have been pushing the idea of battery changing stations but the infrastructure doesn’t exist yet and then you have the same problem of what to do with the used battery? Battery recycling is still iffy. Doesn’t help matters that if you BEV has any problems that can’t be fixed in an afternoon the Insurance companies often decide to consider it a total loss.
Unless you have a major breakthrough in battery life and chemistry “them is the breaks”.
Really BEVs should not be viewed as the solution to all the problems. They are part of a mix of different things but Battery Electric Cars are a product that should be viewed realistically in their limitations. They are very good if you’re trying to live the suburban lifestyle. Not great in the urban environment or the Rural environments. Optimally Yes a more sustainable lifestyle urbanization and expanding electric vehicles in the form of third rail and catenary powered vehicles is needed with redevelopment of suburbs into more traditional urban models so as to reduce the need of individual automobiles. This is particularly important in the United States and Canada as we spent the last nine decades ripping up trolleys and cutting railway. Yet that will never address every need or lifestyle. Cars came into existence for a reason. Though we remodeled much of the United States into “Autotopias” plenty of places that didn’t still have need of individual vehicles.
That’s the vehicles, We shouldn’t forget the grid. Li ion based house back up and grid storage system have been also introduced. These on the small scale are things like Power walls and on the large are basically a box container turned into a battery. They use the same chemistry even being built from the same cells. These systems are often used as a supplement to cover down time in generation of power like night for Solar plants or in the event of a power outage like during a storm or accident. Really what is needed to replace them is a more redundant more reliable more resilient grid with power plants and management that can bypass interruptions and source generation at smaller facilities that may handle more local need. Of course that’s not entirely a practical or more importantly cheap thing.
