Modern electric car batteries can outlast the vehicle itself
A shift to iron-based chemistry means your next car's battery could easily survive a million kilometers, outlasting the chassis and motor it was built to power.
The heart of the modern electric vehicle is moving away from volatile cobalt toward lithium-iron-phosphate, or LFP. Unlike older batteries that degrade after a few hundred charges, LFP cells can endure 3,000 full cycles while retaining 80 percent of their original capacity. For a standard commuter, this translates to roughly one million kilometers of driving—more than triple the typical lifespan of a gasoline engine.
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