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Electric car batteries last longer than expected (study) – ecomento.de

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39 points xbmcuser | 1 comments | 21 Nov 24 18:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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Rygian ◴[21 Nov 24 20:41 UTC] No.42208429[source]▶
I still remember vividly a self-made expert explaining to his friend, in the London subway, that "yeah batteries only last 8 years, then you have to swap them out, ergo electric cars are a dumb idea".

But I still trust in people's capacity to digest being utterly wrong ­— eventually.

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1. DAGdug ◴[24 Nov 24 19:53 UTC] No.42230001[source]▶
I actually believe the claim in the study to be true. But it’s also a terrible design - there’s survivorship bias in selecting operational batteries. It’s not clear if you are thinking that much more carefully than the self-made expert, even if you think you are :)