Wrong! New batteries are showing better performance.
Wrong! New batteries are showing better performance.
The same people generating this sort of data are also saying you will never see those kinds of miles on the odometer of your EV. More realistically you are talking about 70% capacity at 1000 cycles, making your theoretical range drop from 250 to 175, but you need to take another big hit because you shouldn’t go under 20% charge and your fast charge shouldn’t be taken past 80%.
So your actual practical range is more like 100 miles. Plus there is no guarantee that every battery will follow this curve, which is why plenty of people are finding they need a $20k battery pack far earlier than the expected lifetime.
Sure, for someone with lots of disposable income and purely short range driving needs, EVs are an option. But for the average person who needs to do things like visit family a few hundred miles away, tow an RV, or just regularly drive even slightly extended ranges and need to budget how much they spend on transportation, EVs are a disaster.
EV fanboys like you mislead these people with your fantasies.