alt Hacker NewsI didn't see a number for cycle life. That'd be my biggest question here. You can charge in less than 7 minutes but how many times before performance (capacity) degrades?
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djcannabiz • today at 1:23 PM
right at the end “After 1,000 fast charges, the battery should retain more than 90 percent of its original state of charge, the company said.”
est • today at 1:19 PM
China had many >1M KM electric taxies. Usually they degrade after 200,000 km, and they are like 2 generations behind the latest ones.
TFA says "After 1,000 fast charges, the battery should retain more than 90 percent of its original state of charge, the company said."
I can't really judge whether 1000 charges is a reasonable target for a car, though i think that 1000 fast charges is reasonable. It should probably be able to push to 5000 slow charges and 500 fast charges, which should fit a lot of use-cases.