Martin Jackson wrote: > Nawaz Qureshi of USB made a graph of # cycles vs. % DoD that I got > somewhere. I don't think it's on their web site. I picked off the > numbers: [chart deleted]
So I gather the take-home message is that this is very much a battery-specific exercise. The various numbers thrown around briefly in this thread seem to imply that staying under 50% DoD for most battery types is the safe way to maximize energy return, but that this has little or nothing to do with the company-asserted "cycle life". So unless I'm familiar with the actual data from a particular battery type, I should take lifetime mileage estimates with a grain of salt, and should try to stay under half the rated maximum range between rechargings if my goal is to maximize battery life. Is that a fair summary? -- -Adam Kuehn
