Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! For many years now, it has been advised to not fast charge electric vehicles too much, that doing so could lead to rapid degradation of your EV’s battery. It’s always been unclear how much this matters, though, and especially […]
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One key point is something I learned from Mark Z. Jacobson years ago during dinner is that batteries degrade quite a bit early on, when they are new, and then degradation is often minimal for years , and then there’s another significant drop much later on. JB Straubel estimated several years ago that Tesla EV batteries would probably retain good capacity for 15+ years.
The issue is that much research on battery degradation has been done on battery cells, inherently ignoring the work battery pack producers and automakers have done to limit any effect of heat and fast charging on cells. It turns out, those efforts have actually paid off. Cells are protected, and fast charging doesn’t seem to have any effect on the long-term health of batteries. “In short,
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