Re:How much do electric car batteries degrade?
by Sohcahtoa82 on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @01:39PM
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Alternatively, a lot of people destroy their phone/tablet battery by leaving it plugged in all the time with 100% charge.
Phone's are designed to drive their batteries hard. If you are gentle about charging it slowly and keeping it in the 30-80% state of charge region it will last a long time.
The worst thing you can do is aggressively charge it to full and drain it till dead constantly. It will last a few hundred cycles before it gets seriously degraded.
A lot of people unfortunately (fortunate for smartphone companies) do exactly that (you know that person in your life who's phone is always dead?).