BEV battery technologies changing fast
GM's new battery news is exciting Great that they went outside the box in form factor, but the risk as always...will this become a commodity level form factor...AKA Beta vs VHS One of the why's ...
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pnichols wrote:
Note the estimated recharge lifetime of only 1000 cycles.
This is not anywhere near enough - in my opinion. If one was to "top up" their EV battery once a day every day - just to feel good with regards to always leaving home with their EV battery at the 100% charge level (like we do with our smartphones) - then the EV battery would only be good for a little over 3 years (3 X 365 days = 1095 days = 1095 recharge cycles).
A charge cycle life of 3000 or more cycles would be more like it ... to go along with the estimated 800km EV range.
GM has an eight year warranty on the battery. So I am not sure what constitutes a cycle, but I cannot believe that you can kill the battery in 3 years.
But I will see, since I just got one and will have it for 36 months.
