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by audunw 2359 days ago
What? No.. if you go from 80% to 60% back to 80%, that's not considered a full cycle.

You seem to carry a misconception from an older battery chemistry (I don't remember which, but it was common in early cell phones), where it was supposedly better to discharge the battery completely before charging again.

Most chemistries are not like that, as far as I know. In fact, with li-ion it's better to charge every night, if your EV battery has a good buffer, or you can configure it to charge to 80% except for days where you'll actually need 100%.

Maintaining 99% for 200 cycles seem pretty good to me. Possibly better than Li-ion? It depends on how fast the battery degrades after that. But I'm pretty sure my EV lost its first 1% way before 200 cycles.