Comment by rafaelmn
2 days ago
Sounds like deprecating a >10k battery pack on a >30k vehicle and reducing your max range with power cycles to earn pennies.
2 days ago
Sounds like deprecating a >10k battery pack on a >30k vehicle and reducing your max range with power cycles to earn pennies.
Its more than pennies[1]. By several orders of magnitude. Car batteries now last longer the rest of the car lifespan, it will be millions of miles soon.
Tesla Electric customers report making as much as $150 a day https://electrek.co/2023/07/05/tesla-electric-customers-repo...
Lol at 5$ per kWh.
In my country for home consumers the difference between day/night rates is 10-20c/kWh. With spot pricing I can see it working to cover the post commute power spike - but you're effectively doubling your commute discharge rate and pushing charge levels to suboptimal levels.
Batteries might work but at 80% capacity they are worth significantly less than new - both in terms of utility and resale value.
Maybe if battery range gets extended so far that even at 80% capacity it's an overkill - like 1000mile batteries - I could see myself doing something like this - but at current ranges and charging setups - I'll skip the few dozen euro a month.
On the other hand battery prices are dropping exponentially. There's a good argument to be made that your battery is a depreciating asset not (just) because it's degrading, but because the technology is getting cheaper, and thus you should extract as much value from it as possible as quickly as possible (and then replace it).
The caveat to this market is who knows how much of a premium you'll end up paying to replace the battery given that it's attached to a certain model of car.
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