Comment on Toyota Is Recycling Old EV Batteries to Help Power Mazda's Production Line
Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 6 days ago
What’s so bad about 80% of the original capacity? Wouldn’t there be a lot of use cases for a car with 80% of the range?
I’m glad to see any second use for these batteries before recycling. Gotta combat the narrative that “an EV battery is trash after 5 years!”
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
80% is often considered standard for battery warranty. If a Mac goes under 80% in fewer than 1000 cycles, the service toolkit considers it a failure - back when I had access to pirated Apple Service Toolkit anyway. The old version for pre 2015 laptops.
I imagine it’s similar with cars. They can’t promise you retain 100% health for 8 years so they probably have some set percentage. Maybe it’s also 80%?
Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 6 days ago
So it’s more of a milestone to catch early battery degradation rather than a cutoff point below which the battery is labeled useless?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
I would say so, yes.