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Re:Amazon’s electric Rivian vans have delivered 150M packages by jjtheblunt on Friday July 07, 2023 @01:02PM (#36634767)
I drove pure electric (bmw i3) for 7+ years, and i'm unclear on what "age" means here, since recharge cycles I thought of as defining age, combined with the ambient temps of the battery pack during discharge and recharge.
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Re:Amazon’s electric Rivian vans have delivered 150M packages by ms512 on Friday July 07, 2023 @01:24PM (#36635143)
Rechargeable battery wear can be separated out into (1) cycle aging and (2) calendar aging.

One of those typically dominates the total battery degradation, depending on the use case. EVs for personal use tend to have calendar aging dominate the overall battery degradation early in their life.

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Re:Amazon’s electric Rivian vans have delivered 150M packages by jackmott42 on Friday July 07, 2023 @01:40PM (#36635392)
The other reply got it right, but I would add that the higher the temperature the faster the pack degrades, even when it is just sitting there.
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Re:Amazon’s electric Rivian vans have delivered 150M packages by ortusdux on Friday July 07, 2023 @02:13PM (#36635956)
How do/did you like it? I'm suppose to test drive one next week.
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Re:Amazon’s electric Rivian vans have delivered 150M packages by jjtheblunt on Friday July 07, 2023 @04:56PM (#36638180)
i3 pure electric was great but they dont make them anymore
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