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Originally Posted by JSH
Your biggest culprits are true. However, every battery has a finite number of cycles.
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It is not a set number; it depends heavily on the chemistry, but also on build quality etc.
But most of all usage.
NiMH batteries are predominantly used in hybrids (like my Insight). Those batteries are gone after say 2000 full cycles, but can take hundreds of thousands of subcycles in the 40%-80% range, and that's where the hybrid management system tries to keep them.
The same is more or less true for lithium batteries. Avoid the ends of the range.
Teslas with more than 300,000 miles have had thousands of charges and still have more than 80% of their original range left. Those who use their cars less intensively will never reach that mileage and could easily use their excess capacity to enhance grid stability and make money.
Even so, just handsomely timed charging already makes a difference.
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2011 Honda Insight + HID, LEDs, tiny PV panel, extra brake pad return springs, neutral wheel alignment, 44/42 PSI (air), PHEV light (inop), tightened wheel nut.
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