{"id":15468,"date":"2023-09-21T09:53:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T23:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=15468"},"modified":"2023-11-22T17:30:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T06:30:53","password":"","slug":"do-electric-vehicle-batteries-degrade-quickly-over-time","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/docs\/do-electric-vehicle-batteries-degrade-quickly-over-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Do electric vehicle batteries degrade over time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EV batteries, like any battery, slowly degrade and lose capacity over their lifetime. EVs sold today are expected to have a life of around 15 years (or equivalent in terms of total kilometres driven e.g. 180,000-200,000 km). At the end of their usable life in a vehicle, these batteries can be removed, and have a second life as energy storage for homes, buildings or even powering the grid. Batteries could last another 10+ years in this second life application before being recycled and made into a new battery.<\/p>\n<p>The rate of degradation over the battery&#8217;s life can be influenced by a range of factors including battery chemistry, temperature, driving behaviour and charging patterns. Just like all devices, the harder a battery works, the quicker it will degrade. That said, EV batteries continue to improve and are becoming more and more robust.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EV batteries, like any battery, slowly degrade and lose capacity over their lifetime. EVs sold&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[103],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-15468","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-batteryvehicleperformance"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"year_month":"2026-05","word_count":141,"total_views":"0","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"1"},"author_info":{"name":"Bailey Sievewright","author_nicename":"bailey","author_url":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/author\/bailey\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Battery &amp; Vehicle Performance","term_url":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/docs-category\/batteryvehicleperformance\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/15468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15468"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/15468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17069,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/15468\/revisions\/17069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=15468"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=15468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}