If you own an electric vehicle then you’re probably sick and tired of the anti-EV crowd telling you how much you hate your electric car. One of the oldest lies is some variation of “you’ll have to get a new battery every 75,000 miles”. It is a practically ancient line of attack for social media trolls. And as anyone driving a modern EV with a 60 kWh+ pack like a Tesla Model 3 will tell you: this supposed EV reliability concern is completely untrue.
We now have more than enough evidence to show that batteries will provide a usable driving range for hundreds of thousands of miles. A case in point is the driver of this 2018 Tesla Model 3 Performance who has put 200,000 miles on his car’s original pack in less than six years.
Not much has changed regarding the car’s reliability or range in the last 50,000 miles. As is typical with electric cars, the largest amount of degradation occurs …