Electric Avenues - dear lord, HJ still peddling the myth that EV batteries will 'need replacing.' HJ, how many EVs are you aware of that have needed their battery packs replacing? You can include first generation Leafs if you wish but a simple search of You Tube will find reports of Tesla's with over 200k miles and still on their original packs and, even venerable Leafs that have only 'lost' 4 and 5% of their battery capacity.
It depends upon how they're driven and stored - batteries don't like extremes of temperatures, and, I suspect, people in the US (who own most Teslas and will make up the vast majority of YT reports) where typically they do far greater annual mileages than in the UK, I'm not suprised that the batteries 'last longer' in terms of miles done, NOT age. A taxi doing 50-100k miles pa would be fine as most decent batteries (even AAs) drop a few percentage points in the first 2-3 years, then more so as they get older.
Battery effectiveness decreases throughout their life, so for the most part will only give a range of half that from new after about 7-10 years, assuming they still work at all (older generations). Newer batteries are better at keeping going at this age (10-12 years), but having a range of only 100-150 miles won't be of use to many, especially in the UK with our poor charging network and slow (relative to ICE cars) charging times (even for Teslas).
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