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by m463 2392 days ago
I read the worst degradation was at high temperature combined with high state of charge.

But yeah, don't buy a leaf from dubai or phoenix:

http://www.electricvehiclewiki.com/wiki/battery-capacity-los...

Looking at the volt, it seems to battery thermal management plus it only uses 65% of the battery capacity (similar to the 20%..80% tesla recommendation). I guess they can manage the battery capacity conservatively when there's a gas motor available.