Yes and I also should say that it is more heat than cold ( unless extreme cold) that really affects them in regards to performance and cycles.
With every battery it should be an assesssment from birth to grave - recycling. That evens out the playing field but unlikley to happen across teh board.As for the Tesla big battery - well it had guarantee for capacity and uptime from memory so I am not sure we would know the lifecycle. Any non performing cells would be repaired to meet contractual capacity. Like everything unless contracted it is also about how quickly something like the superbattery fails to meet original min capacity once contractual period finished. If it had for example 50% cells at 71% of original capacity the day teh contract finished it will be a quick decline in capacity , quicker detioration if cycled deeper to achieve capacity or a ecconomc decision of how quickly to replace cells or infact to replace with new " contracted" capacity? Wonder what the recycling responsibilty is at end of contract / life - I haven't followed the SA big battery much apart from initiallly and when there was fire.
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