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Re:West London faces new home ban as electric grid at capaci... by ZeroGravitas on Thursday July 28, 2022 @09:35AM (#32264076)
Average age of cars in the UK is 8.4 years, it's growing, but slowly, the 13 years+ segment is about 1/5 of the total, so as long as 1 out of every 5 batteries makes it that far, we'll be fine, anything better than that is a plus. Plus we can start making the new batteries from the 20 year old dead batteries rather than mining fresh materials for them, if we can't find any other use for them.
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Re:West London faces new home ban as electric grid at capaci... by sanitycheck on Thursday July 28, 2022 @10:00AM (#32264387)
The average /lifespan/ of a car in the UK appears to be 13 years which I think means we currently expect half of cars to be used for longer than that. EV batteries apparently have 7-8 year warranties, I assume that's the result of a lot of careful consideration.

We can expect battery tech to improve in the next 8 years, and hopefully become cheaper, but a move to EVs could still drastically limit availability of cheap vehicles for those who need them.

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