Skoda Enyaq offers different battery sizes in Europe. But the smaller batteries have abysmal charging rate for some reason. Smaller batteries means more charge

Skoda Enyaq offers different battery sizes in Europe. But the smaller batteries have abysmal charging rate for some reason. Smaller batteries means more charge/discharge cycles, which means faster degradation, which will be a bigger downside when the car is old when you start out with a small battery. There might be an argument that cars should sell with a large battery when the car is new, and if you don't need such a big battery you can by a second hand car with some degradation. I would've picked a smaller battery for our Ioniq 5 if we could. But I must admit it gives peace of mind to know that there's plenty of range for anything we want to do, and that it's likely that we can keep the car as long as we want without worrying about battery degradation being a problem. One of the first things we did with it was a road trip in Denmark, and we didn't have to stop to charge once (only overnight charging). On one leg of the trip we were down to 7% when we arrived, so we had just barely enough. Btw, I love the concept in the article. But with 2 kids a small car isn't viable for us unless we have a good car sharing or rental service in the neighborhood. But even if we did, most likely availability would be extremely limited and expensive during school vacation. Before we had kids I tended to take the bus/train to work, and I've started taking the bike more. E-bikes is great for getting to work in the summer.