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Now that I've finally gotten an electric vehicle, I'm never going back to an acoustic one.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3214/
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2026
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They degrade by about 10% on a 5 year time scale on average. So when your EV is 10 years old its at a state of health is about 80% of original charge. I mean you might get a lemon that degrades faster than that but then typically you're also putting in a warranty claim for a new battery. I'm not sure how long getting to 10% of original charge would even take because who would even keep a car that long?