Worried that frequent use of DC fast chargers will degrade the battery in your electric car? Recurrent says it's not a problem.
Urban legends. Who knows how they start? One day you wake up to find everybody and their grandmother is saying if you use DC fast charging to put electrons back into the battery of your electric car on a regular basis, your battery will degrade faster and lead to an expensive battery replacement. It’s something a lot of people believe, but is it true?
The charts below show the rate of degradation to be virtually the same whether people use DC fast charging most of the time or hardly ever. The message here is: charge when you need to in any way that is convenient without worrying about the health of your battery. There may be factors that affect the rate of degradation, but how you charge your electric car is not one of them.suggests that the study findings can be applied across Tesla models and other EV manufacturers.
Similarly, precondition the battery before fast charging in extreme cold. Often, driving a bit before fast charging is enough to warm up the battery. In addition, avoid fast charging an electric car at very low states or very high states of charge, since battery resistance will be higher.emphasizes that almost all electric vehicles have software that will curtail fast charge speeds above 80% state of charge.
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