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In general, there’s far more concern about electric car range and electric car battery longevity than there needs to be. We’ve got a 2019 Tesla Model 3 SR+ and a 2018 BMW i3 REx and just need to charge them up once or twice a week overnight at home. Electric cars on the market now have far, far more range, better batteries, and negligible concern about battery longevity.
Electric cars have like three to four times more range than they did a decade ago, so even if they see significant battery degradation, they are still going to have far more range than electric cars bought 10 years ago had!
Anyway, Aviloo, an EV diagnostics company, recently examined the batteries of a bunch of electric vehicles to see how well they held up after 50,000 km (31,068 miles), 100,000 km (62,137 miles), and 150,000 km (93,205 miles). They conducted 500,000+ battery health tests for this. Let’s take a look at the results and see who fared best.
