I'm not an expert but I've designed stuff with batteries for a long time. A large battery with proper charge and thermal management will last much longer under

I'm not an expert but I've designed stuff with batteries for a long time. A large battery with proper charge and thermal management will last much longer under light service. Which is exactly what you have with longer range EV's. A battery rated at a 1000 full discharge cycles will probably last 5,000 light duty cycles. However people are mostly used to batteries in consumer products which utterly abuse cheap batteries to save money.