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For a practical car, 200 to 500 full charge cycles per year is all that could happen. 200 for a suburban family car, 500 for an urban commercial vehicle. (200
by tuatoru 4y ago
For a practical car, 200 to 500 full charge cycles per year is all that could happen. 200 for a suburban family car, 500 for an urban commercial vehicle.
(200 cycles per year would be perceived by an owner as being "every day", because the days she's away on holiday or sick at home or WFH are not remembered. Nor would she remember that she only charges once on weekends.)
100_000 cycles is therefore 20 to (more likely) 50 years' use.
That's a family heirloom, well outlasting the body, suspension, steering and interior of any car. I'd like to have that too.
Edit: Er, that should be 200 to 500 years. Outlasting several chassis and interiors. Definitely heirlooms.
- konschubert 4y agoI think 20 years of use would be cool for a car! Of course you might be right that the steering would break first - but shouldn't that be replaceable? I can't see a reason while the car's body or the electric motors would not last that long.
- bryanlarsen 4y agoA full charge cycle is 0 to 100 and back. If you only do 20 to 80 as most owners do you get about ten times as many cycles. So a typical owner does well under 100 per year. 250,000 km is a reasonable expectation.
- dfadsadsf 4y agoYou did math wrong. 100k cycles is 200 to 500 years of use using your assumptions. Indeed heirloom!