EV batteries only have a life span of 10 to 12 years, so producing them is expensive and wasteful.
Fact:
EV batteries now have a lifespan of up to 20 years. Manufacturers like Tesla, BYD, MG and Nissan give an eight-year/160,000-kilometre warranty for their cars. At the average distance driven each day by passenger vehicles in Australia (34.5 km), this equates to a 12-year warranty. Tesla batteries are even more impressive, degrading by 10 percent after 250,000 kilometres of driving. This means an average driver could expect the battery to last 19 years!
But that is not the end of the story. When a lithium battery does reach the end of its life in an EV, it can be used for another 10 to 12 years in a different form – as a home battery or as part of the electricity grid. In Japan, recycled car batteries are being used to power street lights. And when the battery finally degrades to the point where it is no longer usable in any form, its critical materials can be 100 percent recycled.