Comments by "Joe Qi" (@i6power30) on "No, you don’t need to replace Electric Car Batteries in 10 years time" video.

ICE cars and EVs age differently. ICE ages on wear and tears (mileage), EV batteries age on calendar aging and charging cycles, no wear and tears. So the ideal use case for EVs is high mileage use, especially in city driving, they beat ICE cars by far. But if you are low mileage user (less than 10kkm per year), or, your battery will still degrade with time anyway, you are not getting your money worth. If you are a grandma only driving to church every Sunday, and only use 2000km per year, then you better off with ICE car, because then it will probably last 30+ years, many military vehicles are 50 years old because they are only occassionally used for excercise, very low mileage, but regularly moved around. The real problem with modern EVs is all the high tech gadgets that breakdown and require high repair cost. You will face thousands of $$$ repair bills for infotainment, electronics, control modules etc. way before you need to replace batteries.
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I read a study sometime ago that it's not about the frequency of charging battery, but the from what level to what level. If you charge only from 35% - 75% say 8000 cycles, it will still be better than charging from 5% to 100% only 1000 cycles. The latter "deep cycle" charging actually does more damage to the battery than frequent "shallow" charging.
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On extending EV life, the current culture of pairing everything high tech with EVs are the main problem of high maintenance / repair costs of older EVs, not the batteries. Many electronics components, infotainment touch screen, autonomous sensors etc, breakdown as they age, and requiring tremendous repair costs. It's fine to have bells and whistles, but I wish EV makers would focus on making more robust, reliable EVs than depending core functionality on high tech gadgets. ie. If one or some of these bells and whistles stop working, you can still operate the car without costly repairs - don't put all the core functionality in the stuck on tablet touch screen. When it goes out, you can't use the car at all. It needs to be more reliable and long lasting.
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@Paul-vm9sz Literally, every other person I talk to about extending EV batteries, say as long as you keep it plugged in, it will be fine. That could not be further from the truth. The quickest way to degrade your battery is to keeping it topped up at all times.
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@svr5423 yeah you are right. What I really meant to say is high utilisation, not necessarily high mileage. In ice car terms, it's engine hours not miles travelled that actually wears down engine. EVs are better for high utilisation for sure, especially low range delivery services because these vehicles don't need a huge battery for long range travel and have a fixed return point for frequent recharging.
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@larryc1616 I didn't say that. In fact, most of modern ICE cars face the same problem. But at least there are still some choices in ICE cars with low techs such as some Toyota and Jeep models and some low end pickups. They are very resilient to physical abuses and not prone to finicky electronic failures.
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@larryc1616 No, majority of ICE cars face the same problem. But there are some low tech ICE cars such as some Toyota, and Jeeps, barebone pickups. But in EVs, almost all of them are filled with high tech gadgets as if it's a requirement for being an EV, but in theory, no, you can have a low tech EV, but no one is making them.
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@Paul-vm9sz I wish they were available in North America. It seems Europe gets more variety.
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@ab-tf5fl isn't cyber truck body never going to rust? Also some military vehicles are literally 50+ years old and still in use for training.
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Sadly in America, all EVs are like computer on wheels. Which alienate a big segment of population that wants simpler cars and don't care for software update and autopilot etc. They will sadly stick with ice cars
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@svr5423 there is a difference between low mileage and low range. Food delivery is low range but in constant use it's high mileage perfect for EVs. Low mileage use of EVs as in low utilisation is definitely wasteful for EVs especially if it carries a large battery pack which will degrade with calendar aging anyway .
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@Fear.of.the.Dark. true. Most new ice cars are complicated computer on wheels too. But there still some that are simply built, some Toyotas and base level pickups. But none EVs sold in North America seem to have just the basics. They all try to be computer on wheels as if it were some kind of prerequisite for being an EV. But it's not
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@svr5423 exactly
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