{"id":21677,"date":"2026-05-07T06:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=21677"},"modified":"2026-05-07T07:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:12:36","slug":"2026-05-07-ev-batteries-last-longer-than-the-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=21677","title":{"rendered":"2026-05-07 EV Batteries Last Longer Than The Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Engineering With Rosie&#8221; Barnes explains why EV batteries usually last longer than the car. Determining SOH = state of health. Testing for SOH. Thermal issues. Buying used EVs.<\/p>\n<p>The EV batteries are guaranteed for 8 years so the risk is lowered when buying a used EV.<\/p>\n<p>She mentioned that there are outliers.  Occasionally a used EV may have been fast charged all its life causing its range to be shortened a lot.  She said that battery replacement might cost 8000 Euros for a Tesla up to 34 thousand for a Mercedes, making replacement economically not possible, forcing the owner to sell the EV and buy a replacement. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Watch This Before Buying Your EV\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lg8LZEfBngo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Engineering With Rosie&#8221; Barnes explains why EV batteries usually last longer than the car. Determining SOH = state of health. Testing for SOH. Thermal issues. Buying used EVs. The EV batteries are guaranteed for 8 years so the risk is lowered when buying a used EV. She mentioned that there are outliers. Occasionally a used<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=21677\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,3419,255,805,2046,356,2503,3088,1284],"tags":[2937,4258,4752,4753],"class_list":["post-21677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battery-or-cell","category-blog","category-consumer-information","category-electric-vehicles","category-lfp","category-lithium","category-lmfp","category-nmc","category-video-books-documents-literature","tag-ev-batteries","tag-last-longer","tag-soh","tag-state-of-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21678,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21677\/revisions\/21678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}