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Originally Posted by Ecky
I was under the impression that time was just as much a factor as cycles for these batteries, especially if you live in a hot climate. If you keep the cycles down, could you really still have most of your capacity out of a large Tesla battery after close to 2 decades?
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Yes the big Tesla batteries are temp controlled even when you are out of the car. The Calendar losses of the first gen air cooled Leaf LiMn batteries were the junk that everyone keeps talking about. Any of the better designs will have very little calendar loss. The other thing that affected the 2011 leaf in AZ was not just the sitting in the 110F temps but also that any otherwise normal, even intermittent use was overheating them.