EV Car Battery: Want to extend your EV's battery life? Don't ignore these takeaways

EV Car Battery: Imagine you need to leave immediately for an important work, but your EV car is left with no battery, this situation is enough to make you feel embarrassed just because of your EV Vehicle, In case of EVs, everything from light to music system is operated via battery. It becomes a crucial thing to be aware of your EV's battery health, in the same we care for the car's engine and transmission. Bad weather and inappropriate using patterns by owner can affect the battery health of ythe vehicle badly which ultimately leads to decreased battery life.

Varying according to the usage dynamics and weather conditions, usually an electric battery comes with the life of around 3-5 year approximately, but you can extend the battery life of your vehicle by 6 months or even a year by adopting simple techniques that will prevent any damage to your vehicle's battery too. Coming to the point, let's talk about the takeaways that you should practice to avoid any battery damage.

Don't keep your car unattended in Garage for so many days

If an EV Car is left unattended for so many days, the battery of the vehicle will gradually discharge, leaving it with discharged battery for so long is not considered as a good practice for an EV Vehicle, when you use your car regularly, the engine of the vehicle heats up that helps to reach the fluid in the car to whole mechanism, this practice also helps in charging your battery, an EV car must be driven atleast 30 minutes once in a week, so that the battery health of the vehicle stays good.

Clean the Battery periodically

Dirt, Grime and Moisture can lead to a severe damage to your battery by leakage in the battery casing of your vehicle, for this you are suggested to clean the dirt and unwanted pollutants form your battery's surface atleast once or twice in a month. In a Humid weather, there is a great possibility of genrating rust on the battery's terminals and corrossion on EV battery leads to the shortage of electricity supply to the vehicle, keeping clean these terminal is an important practice to keep your battery healthy.

Use Electronics when really needed

Turning on the ignition of your car, using infotainment system with headlamps and interior lights switched on without running engine of the car is wrong practice to proceed with, this practice leads to excessive drainage of the battery in a short period of time, so make sure that you are not using electronics of your car unneccessarily, another practice is to lock your car everytime when you leave it parked somehere as in an unlocked car, computer system of the car stays running which leads to the intense battery drainage.

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