- Battery degradation is a real-world concern for EV owners.
- Geotab’s five-year study included data from 10,000 electric vehicles
- Study also looked at affect of temperature and AC vs. DC charging on battery pack
Battery degradation. Like range anxiety, charging infrastructure and cold-weather running, how long a new electric vehicle’s battery will last is one of the very real concerns would-be, first-time EV buyers have when considering to go all-electric. Battery degradation is a big deal. No one wants to see their range go from say, 400 kilometres to 300 kilometres during the life of their vehicle.
On this week’s episode we’re diving into some real-world battery deg data with Charlotte Argue, a senior manager with Geotab who recently wrote an extensive paper on the subject based on information compiled by the company over the last five years.
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