Stop Babying Your EV: Hard Acceleration Actually Extends Battery Life by 195K Miles

19/10/2025
Stop Babying Your EV: Hard Acceleration Actually Extends Battery Life by 195K Miles

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Episode Synopsis

New peer-reviewed research led by Stanford and published in Nature Energy found that EV battery life improves when cells experience the power “pulses” you get in real traffic. Compared with the old lab routine of perfectly steady charge/discharge cycles, dynamic driving extended usable life by up ...

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