Electric cars’ lifespans reach those of petrol and diesel vehicles in UK International research team used MOT data to estimate failure rates of all cars.
Battery cars on Britain’s roads are lasting as long as petrol and diesel cars, according to a new study that found a rapid improvement in electric vehicle reliability.
An international team of researchers has estimated that an electric car will have a lifespan of 18.4 years, compared with 18.7 years for petrol cars and 16.8 years for diesels, according to a peer-reviewed study published on Friday in the journal Nature Energy.
The researchers, from the University of Birmingham, London School of Economics, University of California San Diego, and University of Bern, Switzerland, used MOT data to estimate the failure rate of all cars – ignoring scrappage in the first few years, which is most likely to be related to accidents.
Automotive engineers have long suspected electric cars will be more reliable than petrol or diesel cars, because they contain many fewer moving parts.
