Trying to calculate rate of degradation, can someone please check my math?
Trying to calculate rate of degradation, can someone please check my math?
Hi! Hope these posts are ok to make. Math was never my strong suit so I just want to check what I think is a pretty decent degradation rate for my 3 year old EV.
I can’t charge at home and have had to rely on public charging, which until recently was mostly DCFC at ~50 kw. Occasionally (a few times a year), I might do a couple cycles of DCFC at a faster rate while road-tripping.
With that in mind, my math shows my 77kwh battery (82kwh usable) has degraded 1.82% in terms of experience and actual range lost.
The way I figured this was to calculate that my most recent charge from 36-73% delivered a little over 28 kWh, which means a 37% charge is 28kwh.
This makes 10% = ~7.56kwh
7.56 x 10 = ~75.6kwh.
75.6kwh is 98.18% of 77.
While the full rate of degradation is above 8%, the usable degradation is less than 2% over 3 years of almost exclusively DCFC. That’s not too bad, right?