This article about an electric vehicle that still has a very healthy battery after 316,000 miles is from the Ford Authority newsletter.
While there are plenty of folks out there concerned over the potentially big cost of replacing batteries in electric vehicles, we continue to see EVs rack up hundreds of thousands of miles on the original packs. Recent studies have found that battery failures tend to happen early on, when vehicles are still under warranty, and for the most part, they don’t lose much capacity over the long haul, either. This Ford Mustang Mach-E is certainly proof of that, as it just passed the 300k-mile mark with no troubles, too.
We last reported on this very same 2022 Ford Mustang Mach-E Premium in June 2025, at which point its owner – David Blenkle – had reached the 250,000-mile mark in his EV crossover, and his battery life was still quite good with a max range of around 290 miles at that time. Now, according to Forbes, Blenkle has reached his next milestone at 316,000 miles, to be exact, and he has only experienced a mere eight percent battery degradation – leaving him with nearly 300 miles of range to this day.
Blenkle managed to accumulate some pretty extreme mileage in a short period of time after purchasing his Mach-E new in June 2022, which he uses for his own private car service in the Santa Cruz, California area. Originally, his intention was to use the car for ride-sharing purposes as a bridge of sorts between jobs, but clearly, things took off, and he’s transported 7,000 customers thus far. Amazingly, Blenkle has only performed routine maintenance to his EV crossover, too – going through six sets of tires, as well as seven cabin filters, but not a single repair.
Much of this can be attributed to proper use and maintenance, of course, as Blenkle does most of his charging at home and follows Ford’s recommendation of stopping at the 90 percent mark, though he does occasionally utilize DC fast charging when needed. Other than that, he gets regular tire rotations, routine multipoint inspections, and new cabin filters at his local dealer, and since Blenkle relies on regenerative braking as much as possible, he hasn’t even had to replace the original brake pads yet.
