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Re:What can 6,000 electric vehicles tell us about EV battery... by sfblah on Saturday August 29, 2020 @02:46PM (#24318465)
I have a 2015 Leaf with 45k miles on it. Battery state of health is 90% according to Leafspy. I’m in the SF Bay Area. Maybe it’s because of the more temperate climate here, but we’ve just had zero battery degradation problems.
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Re:What can 6,000 electric vehicles tell us about EV battery... by Gibbon1 on Saturday August 29, 2020 @05:48PM (#24319655)
My gut feeling is temperature and constant deep discharging probably explain most of the issues with Leafs. Like a lot of things there is a curve with a knee and it's easy to drive a leaf so you're on the wrong side of it.

I don't really know how Leafs batteries are connected but one could also expect that a smaller battery pack has less redundancy. If due to bad luck a couple of cells go bad you lose a lot of capacity. More likely to happen the less redundancy you have.

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