Banter and General Comments, page-8911

FUD:

"In 5 years more than half the battery life is gone."


FACTS:

Tesloop, a southern California intercity shuttle, uses Tesla automobiles exclusively. In fact, the company put over 300,000 miles on a Model X in less than two years. That car has lost less than 13% of its original battery capacity. According to its observation, the bulk of the degradation happened in the first 9 months, with very little after that point.

The data clearly shows that for the first 50,000 miles (100,000 km), most Tesla battery packs will lose about 5% of their capacity, but after the 50,000-mile mark, the capacity levels off and it looks like it could be difficult to make a pack degrade by another 5%.

The trend line currently suggests that the average battery pack could cycle through over 300,000 km (186,000) before coming close to 90% capacity.

Here are the relevant charts from the data gathering effort (full chart on the left and zoomed to 80% on the right):

STOP IT!