The EV cult is straight up delusional, at this point.
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Seriously? That's madness.
Batteries don't like heat, and both driving and charging the EV introduces heat into the system.
Batteries don't like cold either, as it slows down their internal chemical reactions.
About the only environment batteries like are laboratory settings with a consistent 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
Not only that: summer you want to put in AC, reducing your range. Winter you want to out on heating reducing your range also. People just never think things through.
I can't use my ebike in Temps over 32 degrees celsuis
No he's being rhetorical. Battery degradation sucks though. My iPhone on 85% of its original life feels like it's 50%.
We have no reason to believe the “battery health” reported to us by the operating systems installed on our phones. Cell phone makers have every reason to concoct utterly retarded metrics that wildly understate performance loss over time. As you say, an “85%” battery feels like a 50% battery - probably because it is actually the latter.
Depends on the EV. I owned a Leaf. I kept it in a temperate climate and always charged properly to specs, and before 70k miles it was down to about 40% range.
I have zero doubt it'll be unusable before it could have ever hit 150k.
A Leaf, eh?
There was a court case here in Australia. Nissan was selling a replacement (discounted) battery for more than the resale price of the car. This was in spite of there being a serious design fault in the early Leaf batteries that seriously degraded their lifespan.
Early Leaf models had batteries that didn't have an active cooling system, that is a fluid pump and radiator. The heat issues drastically shortened the battery life.
Holy shit. That’s insane. And I’ve considered getting one.
I guess you have to budget for a new battery every 5-10 years? EV companies will need to step up and make that something like 10k with financing or most people will bail.
I assume so. I sold that shit for 80% of the price I paid for it after getting 7 years out of it. The used car market hasn't entirely realized how badly electric vehicles depreciate.