Anyone with an older electric car? 7 or 8 years or older?

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We are considering changing our car for an electric but we aren't rich and aren't willing to get into debt so we are looking at a 5/6 year old car. We have considered whether an electric car would work for us and it will, we aren't massive drivers, we have a drive to charge it on blah blah. The only issue is battery degradation. How big an issue has this been for you? Where is your battery now vs new? I feel like there is a lot of scaremongering around electric cars so I'd love to hear from people that actually have older ones and how they have faired.

Me too. I have a fairly new one and am also interested in battery degredation.

Hopefully someone has some experience!

We have a 2015 Leaf that we bought second-hand 5 years ago. It has now done over 50k miles and we've only ever charged it at home. It has lost only one sector of the battery (out of 12) due to degradation. It's highest possible range was, I think, 126 miles when new; now it's 86 when fully charged. It has been the ideal car for us as it can handle DHs commute to work and back (about a 60 mile round trip) on one charge. When he WFH I use it for school runs and local errands and rarely run the battery right down in a day of toing and froing. It would be a pain to take on a really long journey as you'd have to charge frequently; although we do drive it to my parents' house which is approx 50 miles away as they have a charger at their house. We are considering upgrading soon as DHs work site is moving 5 miles further away from where it currently is, adding 10 miles to the round trip, which is getting a bit too close for comfort. So we'll probably get a newer electric car with a bigger range for him, and I'll have the older Leaf for my more local driving as I WFH all the time.

I've got a 67 reg Ioniq. It's done just over 90,000 miles (55,000 of those are mine) and it's fine.

The older leaf's are known to have some degradation but other cars not so much.

I have a 2014 Nissan Leaf which was 5k. The battery has degraded by 3 bars. It says 72 miles at full charge but I wouldn't trust it. It does seem to go a lot further at a consistent speed. Hills, cold weather, using the fan/wipers etc make it go down quite quickly so it's hard to judge. I use it for work which isn't far and travelling into ulez zones. So far it's been v reliable (had it a year). We looked at a few cars and some had much more battery degradation so you just need to check carefully. Got this in a private sale.

We have a 68 reg eGolf and I don't think we have seen any battery degradation. It's a bit hard to tell, because there is significant seasonal variation, but we haven't had any problems with it.

You are supposed to charge to only 80% to help with degradation.

We have a 2018 car, 50,000 miles and bought second hand. Usually charged at home overnight but we definitely do also use rapid chargers. Currently no battery degradation.

I believe you can safely charge to 100 percent so long as the charge speed slows down between 80 and 100. Our car automatically slows the charging speed after 80 percent and it's not new so I would assume most modern cars can take it. We do it routinely