Either way I think the benefit for me would be after the vehicle is well-worn and only has 10 or 20% of its original range remaining. If it was so much more ef

Either way I think the benefit for me would be after the vehicle is well-worn and only has 10 or 20% of its original range remaining. If it was so much more efficient than average to begin with that could make the difference whether it was still viable for daily use including short commutes for a number of additional years when almost all other vehicle choices would require a new battery at that point. Batteries are a bit like capacitors, and I think people are aware how some of the shoddiest capacitors were placed on motherboards for a while there before people figured out how substandard their lifetime was after it caused so many premature failures. However the engineers who used about twice as much capacitance as the minimum to start with, whether it was intentional or not, were not struck nearly as bad.