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Re:What Finally Killed AirPower by teraflop on Saturday March 30, 2019 @02:29AM (#19528106)
> It doesn’t matter if you charge from 0% to 100% in one go or from 90% to 100% ten times.

This isn't really true, as far as I know. If you avoid fully charging or deeply discharging a lithium-ion battery, the wear per unit of energy extracted is smaller.

There are some statistics quoted here (https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_l...) showing that if you, say, halve the amount of energy you retrieve from a battery in each cycle, the battery lasts for more than twice as many cycles.

This paper arrives at a similar conclusion (see figure 4): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318292540_Analysis_...

Re:What Finally Killed AirPower by accatyyc on Saturday March 30, 2019 @02:40AM (#19528140)
Thanks for the links!

Also, I want to add that what I wrote above is only regarding smartphones. I don’t know how much stress/extra heat etc that EV batteries are subject to, but I imagine they drain/charge at more intense rates relatively.

Re:What Finally Killed AirPower by shawnz on Saturday March 30, 2019 @04:45AM (#19528479)
The principle applies for smartphone batteries too. Full discharges will degrade your battery significantly faster.