“If you’re manufacturing EVs that can’t be repaired, it’s going to be a real challenge to sustain residual values” — experts call for more repairability in the battery industry
- Cox Automotive warns that long-term future of EVs is under threat
- A culture of 'replace rather than repair' could be damaging residual values
- As a result, older EVs will struggle to stay on the road
The notion of a vehicle clocking up the mystical 500,000-mile figure could potentially die with the internal combustion engine, as experts warn that the current manufacturer focus on recyclability rather than repairability in modern EVs is threatening the long-term future of the technology itself.
Speaking at the FT Future of the Car Summit in London, Cox Automotive’s European director of operations for EV battery solutions, Antonia Stephenson, said that it is important that manufacturers design batteries "with repair in mind", adding that it was important to "keep them in the vehicle and then into the energy storage industry beyond that," according to Auto Express.
Stephenson pointed out that the EV industry is currently focused...
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