plugin america Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:06:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 EV Batteries Last More Than You’d Expect, Survey Finds https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ev-batteries-last-more-than-youd-expect-survey-finds-20130717/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ev-batteries-last-more-than-youd-expect-survey-finds-20130717/#respond Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:02:51 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=39470 A recent survey by Plug In America suggests that electric car batteries  last much longer even than what the manufacturers predicted in the first place. For instance, the battery in a Tesla Roadster only drops to 80 – 85% after 100,000 miles of driving. Tesla, on the other hand, had originally estimated that the battery […]

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