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oofbaroomfyesterday at 7:01 PM4 repliesview on HN

20% loss isn't too bad if you start out at double the capacity though.


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cousinbryceyesterday at 7:13 PM

My first thought was put the new cells in aircraft, then cheap cars finally grid storage

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kazinatoryesterday at 7:25 PM

That's only a valid concept in some embedded engineering case, where a certain capacity is required, and double that amount is provisioned to account for degradation.

Few consumers think this way. Something doesn't have double the capacity that it has; the capacity is the capacity, and the decline looks bad.

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dyauspitryesterday at 7:05 PM

But does it keep dropping? Is it 60% at 200 cycles

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maximus-decimusyesterday at 7:15 PM

Going down 10 times faster seems like a really bad trade off for 2 times the capacity. That means your battery will only lst 1/5 or 20% as long.

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