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EV Batteries Can Outlast A Vehicle’s Lifetime With Minimal Degradation, Study Finds - The battery degradation rate in modern EVs has gone down by almost a quarter in the past five years. (insideevs.com)

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[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

People are forgetting that first Toyota Prius had everlasting batteries, except they were always running between 40% and 60% of charge.

It's not hard to make long lived battery, but you inherently have to sacrifice a lot of capacity