Battery replacement

[Warsuth]

Has anyone replaced the battery in their e-golf? I have a 2018 with 53K miles. This car has cost me almost nothing to operate. 1 set of new to me tires and yearly checkups. The brakes are still at 90%!!! I’m wondering if battery replacement is an option to extend the life of the car once degradation becomes an issue. I get about 155 miles on full charge in the summer and 115 in the winter.

 

[f1geek]

Has anyone replaced the battery in their e-golf? I have a 2018 with 53K miles. This car has cost me almost nothing to operate. 1 set of new to me tires and yearly checkups. The brakes are still at 90%!!! I’m wondering if battery replacement is an option to extend the life of the car once degradation becomes an issue. I get about 155 miles on full charge in the summer and 115 in the winter.

I have seen one report of a battery replacement for an Arizona based e-Golf. Nothing else. My car has 70,000 miles and by my estimates is at ~90% SoH, not changing much since ~50,000 miles, though I really don’t have enough data to be certain.

 

[Camilla1987NEV]

Has anyone replaced the battery in their e-golf? I have a 2018 with 53K miles. This car has cost me almost nothing to operate. 1 set of new to me tires and yearly checkups. The brakes are still at 90%!!! I’m wondering if battery replacement is an option to extend the life of the car once degradation becomes an issue. I get about 155 miles on full charge in the summer and 115 in the winter.

I’m at a similar mileage and have been wondering the same about battery replacement. From what I’ve seen, as long as you keep the battery healthy, like avoiding frequent 0-100% charges and extreme temps, you could get several more years before degradation really becomes an issue. Replacement is possible, but might not make financial sense.

 

[f1geek]

I’m at a similar mileage and have been wondering the same about battery replacement. From what I’ve seen, as long as you keep the battery healthy, like avoiding frequent 0-100% charges and extreme temps, you could get several more years before degradation really becomes an issue. Replacement is possible, but might not make financial sense.

I am expecting to to get at least 150,000 miles and/or 15 years before I get rid of the car, and at that point, I suspect degradation stil won't be an issue for most driving.

 

[fessyfoo]

I’m at a similar mileage and have been wondering the same about battery replacement. From what I’ve seen, as long as you keep the battery healthy, like avoiding frequent 0-100% charges and extreme temps, you could get several more years before degradation really becomes an issue. Replacement is possible, but might not make financial sense.

For some batteries, using less of the charge more frequently will make the battery last a really long time. I suspect it applies to our egolf batteries.

so using 25 - 30% of charge and recharging, gets less battery degradation per mile. here's a rather in depth video talking about the subject:



I think i abused mine in the first many years of it's life. 2015 with "84" mi range. I was always trying to get as far as i could Hypermiling which often meant lots of full to almost empty charge cycles. I would also plug it in to charge, and then end up letting it get to and sit at 100% a lot.

So now it gets about 50mi range at 9 years old. I'm hoping i can slow further degradation by treating it better. it still makes a great short trip car.

 

[f1geek]

For some batteries, using less of the charge more frequently will make the battery last a really long time. I suspect it applies to our egolf batteries.

so using 25 - 30% of charge and recharging, gets less battery degradation per mile. here's a rather in depth video talking about the subject:



I think i abused mine in the first many years of it's life. 2015 with "84" mi range. I was always trying to get as far as i could Hypermiling which often meant lots of full to almost empty charge cycles. I would also plug it in to charge, and then end up letting it get to and sit at 100% a lot.

So now it gets about 50mi range at 9 years old. I'm hoping i can slow further degradation by treating it better. it still makes a great short trip car.

For sure, lots of 100% to 0% charges are bad. If you did this at high temperatures, even worse. Sorry to hear about that. Still, I hope the 50 mile range works. Too bad you didn't make a warranty request before 8 yrs / 100,000 miles as the warranty covers more than 30% degradation.

 

[N0su9ar]

Has anyone replaced the battery in their e-golf? I have a 2018 with 53K miles. This car has cost me almost nothing to operate. 1 set of new to me tires and yearly checkups. The brakes are still at 90%!!! I’m wondering if battery replacement is an option to extend the life of the car once degradation becomes an issue. I get about 155 miles on full charge in the summer and 115 in the winter.

Why do you have to worry if your car has no problem?

 

[jackconn]

It sounds like we're an outlier...HERE is the link to my post that describes the saga. Relevant points are that we had 4 battery cells in our 2019 eGolf replaced due to a failure of at least one of those. While it took longer than it should have, it was covered under warranty and all has been good since we got the car back. I agree with N0su9ar: don't worry about it, for several reasons. With all the EVs out there, some in service for many years, if battery failure was a big problem we'd all have heard about it (heard real stories, not concerns). The technology and infrastructure for battery replacement or service will grow as demand grows. And if we tally up all the money we're saving on service vs an ICE car, by the time this becomes an issue we'll have plenty in the bank to offset the cost. One footnote on our experience: While there are certified ID.4 battery mechanics and tools everywhere, I was told there are only two in the USA to replace eGolf battery cells, Massachusetts and California.