EV Battery Lifetime Is Longer In The Real World, Not The Lab

09 Dec 2024 | Abstracted from Cosmos Magazine

"We've not been testing EV batteries the right way...

"...real driving with frequent acceleration, braking that charges the batteries a bit, stopping to pop into a store, and letting the batteries rest for hours at a time, helps batteries last longer than we had thought based on industry standard lab tests."

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