2022年9月16日

幾乎所有尼桑生產的電動汽車電池仍然用於汽車。這是真的:盡管早期對電動汽車電池的續航時間存在疑問，但看起來現實世界的數據不僅與早期對壽命的預測相符——而且超過了預測!日產英國市場總監尼克·托馬斯在接受《福布斯》采訪時表示:“我們生產的幾乎所有電池仍用於汽車。”這與我們第一次推出電動汽車時人們所擔心的完全相反(LEAF於2010年推出，是2011款)。電池隻能維持很短的時間。”現代混合動力汽車比純電動汽車存在的時間更長，最早的豐田普銳斯早在1998年就推出了(近25年前)，甚至其中一些混合動力汽車仍在路上行駛。“在汽車壽命的最後——15年或20年——你把電池從車裏拿出來，它仍然是健康的，”托馬斯說，“(它仍然)有大約60%或70%的可用電量。”日產LEAF電池;禮貌和日產。剛接觸電動汽車的人經常對它們的續航時間表示擔憂——這是有充分理由的!美國汽車的平均使用年限現在是12.2年，因此，人們現在看到的電動汽車是否至少能使用那麼久的問題，越來越與美國購車者有關，尤其是在工資基本停滯不前、價格創紀錄高的情況下(似乎還會持續下去)。 That trend of keeping larger vehicles longer is likely to “transfer over” to EVs, too, especially as EV buyers begin to more closely resemble the “mainstream” car buyer. “Behavior in the BEV market similar to the overall market: customers like truck and utility body styles; and manufacturers have reacted to position their portfolios to meet that preference,” explains Todd Campau, associate director of aftermarket solutions at S&P Global Mobility. Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Redwood Materials; image courtesy Toyota. If there’s a downside to the projected longevity of EV batteries, it’s that there isn’t a ready supply to start large scale recycling programs yet. That means companies like Audi, VW, and Toyota parner Redwood Materials (the company JB Straubel started after, you know, founding Tesla ) may not have the huge market impact we expect them to – at least, not right away. The good news for Straubel’s investors, though, is that Redwood Materials has already factored an 15-ish year lifespan for electric cars into his business plan . Even so, the company is currently recycling 8-10 GWh year worth of batteries, which it says is, “enough for hundreds of thousands of cars,” and, the materials keep getting better the more times they are recycled.