The used electric car timebomb – EVs could become impossible to sell on because battery guarantees won’t last – find out if you are affected

They will say that they could not have known. When in fact there were countless voices warning about exactly this problem for many years or even more than a decade. Most people have no idea that the Electric Vehicle is more than 200 years old by now. Yes, it’s older than the Internal Combustion Engine. But it has not managed to push aside horse carriages like the ICE did as it always suffered from the one problem – how to make electricity portable. We have batteries now but anyone who owns a mobile phone knows how those degrade. Range anxiety and battery life were an issue more than a century ago. They still are. 

The used EVs that could be hard to sell because batteries won't last

Many EVs will lose up to 12% of their charge capacity by six years. Yet the cost of replacing an EV battery is astonishingly high, our research found.

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