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I'm sure there's some FUD there too. I mean it sure sounds like it, right?
But batteries are consumable products, and they do go out.
I want to like EVs and I believe they are good for the environment. I also cannot afford one.
Batteries do go out but it's something like less than 2.5% of EVs made since 2011 have needed a battery replacement. If you only count EVs made after 2015 it's less than 1%. All the early models before 2015 were pretty terrible with no thermal management systems on the batteries. Unless you are shopping for a gen1 Nissan LEAF with 43 miles of useable range you will almost certainly not have to worry about battery replacement.
From my observations a modern EV battery will usually last at least 150-300k miles.
https://insideevs.com/news/720398/study-battery-replacement-rates-evs/
They do go out, yeah. So do internal combustion engines and apparently at about the same rate. Literally nothing lasts forever. I'm actually not a huge electric car fan - they're super inadequate and are just kicking the can down the road, what we need is to massively reduce our car dependency. But there's no need to buy into this sort of outright disinformation.