The Truth about EV Battery Life and Charging Best Practice ! | 4K

So what is the truth about EV battery life and charging best practice ? Are they done after a couple of years ? Does rapid charging damage them ? Should you charge to 100% ?

Well I paid my mate Moggy at Electric Classic Cars a visit so I could de-bunk the myths and misunderstanding. This video is a must for any EV owner.

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[sonandsanford]

Don't listen to people with opinions, listen to people with experience, got it. Thank you very much. Great video.

[boblatkey]

I've specialized in batteries for 25 years now and it really is an annoying career because so many people want to tell me how much more they know about batteries than I do. Unfortunately the vast majority of them have 10 pounds of opinion and 2 pounds of knowledge.

[ACD]

I watched 80% of the video and then decided not to go to 100% to save my subscription. Thanks, guys!

[jnobody]

I'm driving a 2nd hand 2015 Volvo V60 PHEV D6 since 5 years with 140.000 miles on the clock. When I bought the car it was on 90K miles and the battery was on 96%. The majority of the 50K I drove the car were short distances from which almost all fully electric. And now after 5 years I still have about 90% battery-capacity. So I can confirm that these guys are right with what they are claiming.

[FahimaChaudhuri-cfsn]

I’m a new EV driver and this video taught me so much. Thanks a million!

[danieltaylor]

I learned more in that 23 min video clip, then in hours of googling. Thanks Moggy

[gavin]

Moggy is FANTASTIC!!!!
Cuts through the nonsense and explains things so simply and so well. The perfect guest. Well done 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻

[iycrra]

"Don't listen to people with opinion. Listen to people with experience" Nicely said. A great video. Didn’t think I would listen to the finish, but I did. Great job! Thank you 🙏

[kevinsmith]

great to have videos with the people that re-use second hand EV batteries! And fascinating to hear that the problem facing lithium battery recyclers is that the batteries are staying in use and so there are very few needing recycled!

[daverussell]

Thank you for bringing balance into this debate
I am a petrol head and was completely anti ev till I watched this.
What a pleasure to listen to the views of a properly knowledgeable person.

Wanna search for any videos of the conversations that this company is active with

[vkrb]

This is the first video I've seen that might, just might, change my anti EV viewpoint. Very clear message. Thank you.

[jordanpack]

Efficiency doesn’t go down, just capacity.

[pathfollower]

My favorite battery charging explanation was
"Imagine a giant double decker stadium and the top deck is full and the bottom deck is empty. All the people represent electrons. A whistle blows and everyone scrambles to get to the bottom deck. At first there are big bottle necks, then the flow starts stabilizing. The deck starts to fill up fast till you get to the final 20%. After you get to the final 20%, most seats are occupied and people spend more time wandering around looking for an empty seat. The less seats left available the harder it is for the "electrons" to find a "hole" to sit down in so it takes longer.

[bicycletalk]

After hearing this I am going to change my charging habits. 80% is better than I thought for what I am doing. Great information video.

[fiddleguy]

We have a Chevy volt that is 10 years old and has 40, 000 miles on it. We are officially an elderly couple and very rarely drive beyond the range of the batteries. We live in town and 90% of our driving is within a 20 mile round trip. If we anticipate driving farther than the range of the batteries we put the car in mountain mode . This mode essentially guarantee that the battery doesn't get down all the way on the trip before the small gas engine kicks in and starts charging the batteries. GM wants the gas engine to be used at least 10 minutes every month anyway and and has this programmed into the system. Once in a while I let the car run the batteries down until the engine kicks in in normal mode to check on battery degradation. So far we have noticed no degradation that we can notice. The car has given us 40000 trouble free miles and has so far shown no evidence of body corrosion. At this rate and our very senior driving style we anticipate this car should, barring an accident, last us the rest of our lives. Given our low electricity rates it only costs us $1.50 to drive 50 miles which ain't bad. And you guys are correct, there's an awful lot of misinformation out there concerning electric cars from people who never owned or driven one.

[TheOnlyJizz]

I ran a Nissan eNV200 as a nationwide same day courier. Nissans are not noted for their battery longevity, they use old tech and very rudimentary thermal management (although unlike the Leaf at least the eNV has some). But after 130, 000 miles in just 2 years and a huge number of rapid charges (sometimes as many as 5 a day) it still retained 90% of it's original battery capacity and therefore range. I was more than happy with a vehicle which would still be perfectly serviceable beyond 250 or perhaps even 300, 000 miles with minimal repair costs, so I've stuck with an EV and wouldn't go back to a combustion car as a daily driver if you paid me.

[alansheard]

As they say, every day is a day at school, that was an education. BRILLIANT, 'Don't Listen to people with Opinions, Listen to People with Experience' thanks Moggy best advice I've heard in over 50 years !! 👍

[dghackett]

I am an old git but you're never too old to learn. Very intuitive and it has me thinking. Keep up the good work both you and moggy. 👍👍 a thumbs up each 😄

[MrFatknacker]

I took a BMW i3 as a company car back in January 2017 and over the following 4 years racked up 110K miles. Since its main use was a 160+ mile round trip commute, it was frequently getting charged from below 20% back up to 100% twice a day (overnight at home and at work) on an AC charger and I saw very little deterioration in range over that period of time. I did not rapid charge it very often, mainly because of the limited availability at the time.

[teslasnek]

It's ok to run down to 0% if you charge right away, and it's also ok to charge to 100% if you use it right away. The batteries just don't like sitting at those extremes for a period of time.