I've had this vacuum for almost two years... I was hoping to get 5ish years out of it. The battery life has never been good. If you use it on the high power mode you maybe get 10-15 minutes of use. If it's on the second power mode you can get about 20 minutes. After about a year of use I noticed the tube toward the bottom cracking and as of today it has about a 1 inch hole so it doesn't suck properly. As of a few days ago, the charger is no longer working :(