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Old 12-05-2019, 05:38 PM   #175
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague View Post
Don't EVs also lose range over time? That is, the battery's ability to hold a charge degrades over time, such that a vehicle with 500km range new might have 300km range after 10 years or so? Because that is also a fairly significant issue when investing in a new vehicle...
Giant thread at one of the largest Tesla fan forums about this issue, though this was a sudden drop and theorized that Tesla discovered degradation issues that it hadn't accounted before, requiring it to cap the maximum voltage of the cells for its own protection:


https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/thre...ftware.154976/


Hand-in-hand with capacity degradation is a reduction in maximum charging speeds, which impacts the ability of the car for long-distance travel (as well as directly adding to congestion at these high-power DC charging stations).


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