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EV batteries don't necessarily break but become less efficient. Is horribly underreported how worse the ev batteries become after 5 years. But if you maintain some best practices you can reduce that. It's not optimal but technology improves so maybe we will get better ev batteries in the future.
As for solar panels, I honestly don't see a reason against them.
I know it's not cost effective, is not even green effective but it does offer a bit of independence if you have to make regular short trips. Like me taking my kids to daycare and school.
So leave the battery 60% charged and only drive when it's 60-70 degrees outside?
Technology improves—to a point. Solid-state batteries, the latest meme in the EV space, has its own problems, like lithium dendrites.
Technology isn't fucking magic, and the fact that people treat it as such is why we get retarded policies like ICE vehicle bans by 2030.
I blame political lobbying. Holy fuck, how does anyone think that hydrogen is clean? Tell me you are brutally, willfully ignorant without telling me you are a window-licking moron.
That is because there is so much variability. The software of the battery power electronics is paramount to battery lifespan.
That is, how fast and deeply you discharge your battery and the way you charge your battery both dramatically effect lifespan.
It turns out that active cooling (liquid cooling systems and radiators) are vital to both fast charging and battery pack lifespan. See the early Nissan Leaf that had battery packs without active cooling systems. The battery had a truly disappointing lifespan. Now Nissan doesn't make them like that.
That said, it would be a relatively simple matter for the manufacturer to build a diesel heater into the battery cooling system. That would keep the battery warm in low temperatures. Even electric heating driven from the charging circuit (an electric blanket) that ran while the car was plugged in would be a good start.
It amuses me to think about people pouring diesel or kerosene into their electric car to keep it warm. It would solve a bunch of problems, as making heat out of electricity is really inefficient, so passenger cab heating, windscreen defrosting etc takes a huge toll on the battery and thus the range.
IMNHO, EVs are just an under-baked idea. They will get dramatically better as these problems come to light and are solved.
tl;dr: It is just about impossible to do an apples to apples comparison across EV brands or even models.