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Re:Battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts by neallindsay on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @12:41PM (#40648428)
Not every charge/discharge wears on the battery the same. Staying at 0% or 100% is worse than staying around the middle. Charging and discharging extremely quickly wears more than slow charges/discharges. And high temperatures are bad for battery health in general.

Electric car batteries are tuned much more conservatively than phone batteries and are massively over-provisioned because US consumers are nervous about exactly the thing you're talking about. That's not too surprising because to a large degree the car IS the battery, but battery wear is generally very well mitigated (with the exception of the Nissan Leaf).

Re:Battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts by hedora on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @02:15PM (#40649619)
Early Nissan Leafs. At this point, the newer used ones include battery health management, and should be similar to other used EVs.

Note that getting an old one with a dead battery makes even less sense than you'd guess: It'll burn out any replacement battery just as fast, assuming you can actually get one.