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Well, if the range of the vehicle is 300 miles per charge, that's 300,000 miles before needing to replace the battery.

• have_faith 5y ago
  Don't most people plug it in at home regardless of what battery is left? no one wants to leave the house on 40% battery just to run it down a "cycle". How does that effect the math?
  • sbradford26 5y ago
    It depends on the each battery chemistry but most lithium based batteries that would count as like .6 of a cycle or less. Those 1000 cycles are usually determined by full discharge and recharge which is the most demanding on the battery. Usually in the data sheet for batteries you can see cycles for full discharges and partial discharges.
  • sliken 5y ago
    Range anxiety decreases with ownership. Once you adapt to a 300 mile range you figure out what your daily usage is, and typically it's a small fraction of the range. After all who drives 5 hours per day on average? So it's not a big deal to let you car go a few days, even 40% is 120 miles, or 2 ish hours for most driving patterns. Additionally charge cycles generally means full charges, so 1000 full charges = 10,000 charge of 10%. Similar rules apply to any similar battery technology, like in an apple laptop or pretty much any cell phone. For more data points check out: https://electrek.co/2020/06/06/tesla-battery-degradation-replacement/ https://electrek.co/2020/06/06/tesla-battery-degradation-rep... From what I can tell various improvements in battery management and chemistry things have improved things since the above post.