Re:Battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts
by hedora on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @02:15PM
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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.
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).