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		colechristensen 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How much do electric car batteries degrade? And also we have things like this, openly demonstrating much larger capacities >Tesla extended the range of some Florida vehicles for drivers to escape Hurricane Irma In this case a selection of Tesla vehicles were temporarily "upgraded" from 60 kWh to 75 kWh, that's 25%! https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/10/16283330/tesla-hurricane-...

mikestew 4 months ago [–]

That’s because 60/70/75kWh cars all had the same battery pack, with lower end models software-locked, not because of any “cheating” that you alledge.

colechristensen 4 months ago | [–]

Ok the value judgement is up to you but selling a bigger battery pack as a small one will result in exactly the kind of artificial longevity I'm talking about.

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