500,000 Tests Prove Every Used EV Needs a Battery Health Score with AVILOO’s Brett Lippel

Episode 282

For years, everyone obsessed over range anxiety. But here in 2026, the real story (and the real money) is in battery health. In today’s episode, Brett Lippel, CEO North America at AVILOO, joins me to talk about the first truly independent Certified EV Battery Report (brand new this month) and what it means for dealers, auctions, and EV shoppers. We get into how AVILOO became the “Carfax of EVs” in Europe, why battery health is now the make or break metric in used EV remarketing, and how a 3 minute OBD flash test can add $500–$1,000 per unit while boosting CSI.

Brett and I also talked about which use cases are the most grueling on batteries (hello, rentals and leases), why most fears about EV battery life are completely outdated, and how dealers can turn free battery checks into a service drive magnet. If you care about turning used EVs from “risky” to a serious profit center, this episode’s for you!

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The AVILOO Certified EV Battery Report (September 2026)

• This edition analyzes over 500,000 individual, independent tests carried out on used EVs between 2022 and 2026, covering 20 popular EV models. It draws on a subset of AVILOO’s broader diagnostic database, which now spans more than 1 million independent tests worldwide across North and South America, Europe, Australia and Asia.

• • The AVILOO Certified EV Battery Report is built on data from used electric vehicles tested via its independent AVILOO FLASH Test.
  • For each model, AVILOO calculates the median State of Health at three mileage milestones – 31,069 miles, 62,137 miles and 93,206 miles – along with the range expected to cover 99% of vehicles at each point.

Download the report here