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Are EV Batteries SAFE? We Answer Your Biggest Worries

Do you understand what battery is inside your electrical vehicle– and why it matters? From charging speed to performance and even future resale value, your EV's battery is more important than you believe.

In this video, Electrifying.com heads to the Munich Motor Program to meet CATL– the world's greatest EV battery maker– and get answers to YOUR questions about:
✅ For how long EV batteries actually last
✅ What LFP batteries are (and how they vary from NMC).
✅ Are EV batteries actually safe?
✅ How battery recycling works & why it matters.

With CATL now powering almost 1 in 3 EVs around the world (including Tesla, BMW, Ford, and more), this is your supreme guide to the tech that powers electrical cars today– and tomorrow.

Got more battery questions? Drop them in the remarks– we'll get you responses.

#EV #CATL #Battery.

0:00– Why EV batteries matter.
1:05– Searching for the answers to YOUR questions at IAA Munich.
1:37– How long do EV batteries actually last?
2:58– World-leading quality checks.
3:14– LFP vs NMC: what's the difference?
3:57– Are EV batteries really green?
4:38– Recycling and 2nd life uses ♻.
5:16– Battery security & CATL NP3.0 tech.
5:59– Making the ideal battery option.

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33 responses to “Are EV Batteries SAFE? We Answer Your Biggest Worries”

  1. @BobTheBlue Avatar
    @BobTheBlue

    As always, you are missing the point. The battery issue is not its source but how it’s used. If it’s too hot, the battery fails. If it’s too cold, the battery fails. If a fast charger is used, the battery fails… if there is an R in the month, the battery fails…conclusion… buy a petrol or a diesel

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    1. @grahamcook9289 Avatar
      @grahamcook9289

      Talking stupid, ignorant, uniformed nonsense mate. Troll off!

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    2. @BobTheBlue Avatar
      @BobTheBlue

      @@johnnodge4327you’re drunk on the BS the media are feeding you boy. Go sober up

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    3. @rtfazeberdee3519 Avatar
      @rtfazeberdee3519

      I guess you missed the bit about the battery being thermally managed. Best to do some research before making claims

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    4. @BobTheBlue Avatar
      @BobTheBlue

      @@rtfazeberdee3519nah, best buy a car for £5000 not £50,000

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    5. @sargfowler9603 Avatar
      @sargfowler9603

      Admittedly, heat and cold have effects on the battery, but the management system takes care of that.
      The article is about different batteries and not the usual ice/ev arguments. You probably be better looking at other channels.

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  2. @richardjohnson5529 Avatar
    @richardjohnson5529

    solid state batteries what happened to them?

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    1. @GaryV-p3h Avatar
      @GaryV-p3h

      They’re on their way, they just need to ramp up production, 2- 3 years before they start to roll off the production lines and mainstream by the end of the decade.

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    2. @leswhitehouse Avatar
      @leswhitehouse

      Solid state, aluminium, sodium, even quantum burst discharge… Not sure what to think…

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    3. @FishAndChippery Avatar
      @FishAndChippery

      They’re coming, first as semi-solid states, however. Mercedes tested a proper solid-state battery recently and got a very impressive number of miles out of it. Also NIO have been releasing them in China. So they exist. Gonna see them in cars in Europe in 2-3 years, as another commenter said

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    4. @GaryV-p3h Avatar
      @GaryV-p3h

      Most people who buy new cars only keep them for 3-4 years before trading it in for another new vehicle, I wouldn’t put off buying the current models waiting for solid state to come because you’ll probably be getting another new model by then.

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  3. @grahamcook9289 Avatar
    @grahamcook9289

    You didn’t mention at all sodium-ion batteries! Or lithium with silicon in a graphene grid, currently being deployed for military hand-held battlefield equipment along with aeronautical applications. Once proven, they will be a game changer for road transport with almost double the energy density per kilogram of NMC.

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    1. @BBingo-v5i Avatar
      @BBingo-v5i

      Nobody cares about sodium batteries lol. They are worse than LFP and not that much cheaper

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    2. @GruffSillyGoat Avatar
      @GruffSillyGoat

      Sodium Ion has lower gravimetric and volumetric energy density than Lithium (LFP let alone NMC), at the cell level the price may seem a benefit but at the pack level Sodium just gives quite a but less energy capacity for what is in effect only a little lower price point.

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    3. @johnnodge4327 Avatar
      @johnnodge4327

      Sodium ion batteries are perfect for land based power storage for patchy renewables, but the energy density is just too low for then to make any sense in a vehicle.

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  4. @davereedcouk Avatar
    @davereedcouk

    Great video and it raises some very valid points, such as about battery life being longer for LFP.
    There’s also the fact that LFP happily charges to 100% without degradation, which makes it easier to live with. We have two electric cars, an MG4 with an LFP battery and a Tesla Y with NMC. The NMC is only supposed to be charged to 80% most days, with 100% only if planning for a long trip, but no such worry for LFP. This also means that on most days, the smaller battery ends up with just as much range as the larger capacity NMC battery.
    Anyway, my point is that it would be good to hear the types mentioned in your reviews, rather just saying there’s a cheap battery (possibly LFP) and a more expensive one with longer range (probably NMC).

    I’m a big fan of the channel by the way and keep up the great work.

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    1. @rotoehu9266 Avatar
      @rotoehu9266

      Can I suggest you watch a video by Engineering Explained on NMC vs LFP chemistry. It may surprise you, but charging LFP to 100% has little to do with degradation – there is negligible difference between the two.

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    2. @simondehaas8784 Avatar
      @simondehaas8784

      I am not actually sure that is true about LFP longevity and charging to 100%. Would have really liked to see that question posed to an expert from CATL.

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  5. @simondehaas8784 Avatar
    @simondehaas8784

    This was a marketing video for CATL, you referenced their products and made a load of assertions. From the intro I was expecting a Q&A with someone knowledgeable in their organisation, which would have been interesting.

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  6. @gt9-w8y Avatar
    @gt9-w8y

    No way a lease will be chaper. Those savings will be margin for the company

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  7. @Mark_W_L Avatar
    @Mark_W_L

    You didn’t cover dendrite growth on the lithium anode and how it needs to be suppressed for a long battery life.

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    1. @QuinchGaming Avatar
      @QuinchGaming

      That’s been kind of solved. They put an extended gap between the positive & negative side that, whilst its only tens of micrometers thick, is far enough to prevent dendrite growth reaching the separator during an expected battery life cycle. Both CATL & BYD are working on different additives and advanced battery management systems (that monitor charging and discharging to reduce dendrite growth) now but there are a few battery technologies on the horizon (less than 10 years) that look to eliminate the issue completely by reducing the amount of lithium required in a battery for example. Though Lithium is here to say for the foreseeable future as the ability to recycle a very high percentage of it from existing batteries means the aim is that no virgin Lithium would be mined.

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  8. @QuinchGaming Avatar
    @QuinchGaming

    Currently the main real downside with BEV cars is that the technology is getting better so fast, mainly battery tech, that the battery in your car is out dated in a couple of years as there are ones with better range, better capacity, faster charging and fewer of the downsides always “coming soon”.

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    1. @gordonmackenzie4512 Avatar
      @gordonmackenzie4512

      Yes you could just wait. In the early 2000s a laptop was well over £2000, and it was pretty rubbish, with Windows 2000 or Vista. 20 years later £300 and Windows 10, with huge memory and storage.

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  9. @leswhitehouse Avatar
    @leswhitehouse

    I’m probably more worried about the lead acid 12V battery many manufacturers are still using in their EV’s. If you don’t fancy a Tesla you’re pretty much stuck

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    1. @GaryV-p3h Avatar
      @GaryV-p3h

      It’s easy enough to change the lead battery for a lithium battery, personally I wouldn’t ever give a penny of my hard earned money to Elon Musk for him to use to fund neo nazis, my late father who was awarded several medals for fighting the bazis and the fascists in WW2 would turn in his grave if I was even to think about buying anything from Musk.

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    2. @leswhitehouse Avatar
      @leswhitehouse

      ​@GaryV-p3hThat ideology rules out all VW group cars too

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    3. @GaryV-p3h Avatar
      @GaryV-p3h

      @@leswhitehouse They don’t fund neo nazis like Elon does.

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    4. @jamesengland7461 Avatar
      @jamesengland7461

      This comment was NOT about Musk!

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  10. @nige-g Avatar
    @nige-g

    I saw a report with a video of a battery driven car on fire left to burnout on a motorway in China, then there’s the one in the UK where the front of a house and adjoining garage are on fire because the car outside burst into flames whilst on charge, this is all so recent. In my sixty years of driving it was unusual to see burnt-out vehicles until now, I’ve seen three in eighteen months all near where I live, so I’m gonna wait probably five years before we go all in electric. I so wanna take the leap. We live in a close with seventeen properties with three of them owning electric cars, five in total. Anyway we’ll see.

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    1. @jamesengland7461 Avatar
      @jamesengland7461

      In the US, 195,000 ICE vehicle dies occur each year. They’re so common they’re not newsworthy. EV fires in total, worldwide, since 2010, total under a thousand.

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  11. @aaronivory8088 Avatar
    @aaronivory8088

    Manufacturers should tell you the chemistry and who makes the battery in their vehicles.

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  12. @venom5809 Avatar
    @venom5809

    On a side note my neighbor’s charger in their garage caught on fire last week and fire trucks had to come out so there’s that issue to contend with.

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