On common, the Tesla Mannequin S and Mannequin X lose lower than 12% of vary after 200,000 miles.

That determine comes from a slide within the automaker’s just-released 2022 Affect Report, the place Tesla additionally famous that it estimates most of its U.S.-market automobiles get scrapped once they attain that quantity of mileage. In Europe, Tesla estimates most of its vehicles are scrapped at roughly 150,000 miles.

Tesla Mannequin S and Mannequin X vary degradation (from Tesla 2022 Affect Report)

Tesla’s chart, which seems to narrate to capability with the time period retention, means that Tesla prospects aren’t experiencing a lot vary loss over the total lives of their automobiles. It is probably that in real-world phrases, vehicles are probably in a position to get extra miles out of that 88% of remaining capability than they’d have initially, due to software program updates and the continual enhancements they carry.

Within the report, Tesla additionally explains that age is one other issue, additionally that it does not have knowledge on different newer chemistries. 

Earlier knowledge, from round 2017, steered that some Tesla Mannequin S vehicles should still be over 90% of their unique capability after 150,000 miles—and that hasn’t been proven to be far off as extra knowledge accumulates. This chart itself continues to help that.

2020 Tesla Mannequin X

Tesla or not, battery degradation is exceedingly unlikely to brick your EV, knowledge helps. Even for the Nissan Leaf—one of the susceptible to degradation in its earliest kind, there merely have not been sufficient packs to recycle and recuperate for bigger tasks. And because of higher thermal programs, some earlier issues over warmth and battery life are now not so essential.

California is proposing battery degradation limits as a part of its newest requirements, which mandate a wholesale shift to EVs by 2035. Whereas vehicles already on the highway seem to withstand battery degradation pretty effectively, concrete rules would possibly assist present peace of thoughts to shoppers and assist ease this transition.