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If you have, say, a 75kWh battery, that’s 3-4 days of average summer usage in a large house.
So if you use it to shave off peak usage costs from 4 to 9 pm and then you top it up off peak again from 1 am to 6 am, you cycle through about 10-20 percent of it’s total capacity. If you kept doing this in the mid-range of your battery , like 55-75 percent, it would have a negligible effect on battery life.
Also consider a car probably sucks a lot more current from the cells than a house (while accelerating). Batteries are much happier about low current draw so it’s probably much milder wear than driving the car for the same amount of energy
Depends.
If you have, say, a 75kWh battery, that’s 3-4 days of average summer usage in a large house.
So if you use it to shave off peak usage costs from 4 to 9 pm and then you top it up off peak again from 1 am to 6 am, you cycle through about 10-20 percent of it’s total capacity. If you kept doing this in the mid-range of your battery , like 55-75 percent, it would have a negligible effect on battery life.
Also consider a car probably sucks a lot more current from the cells than a house (while accelerating). Batteries are much happier about low current draw so it’s probably much milder wear than driving the car for the same amount of energy