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    2 days ago

    As for charging. Filling my car up doesn’t damage the fuel tank.

    Do you think burning diesel doesn’t “damage” your engine? Do you think transmissions last indefinitely?

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          I’m not sure where you’re getting your info from. But after 10 years of fast charging an EV’s battery’s will be royally fucked.

          But 10 years for a petrol or diesel car is nothing. My last car was 15 years old and ran like a dream until an old biddy pressed the accelerator instead of the brake in her car and wrote mine off.

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            I’m not sure where you’re getting your info from but no one fast charges their battery for 10 years.

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                  Batteries degrade over time and fast charging accelerates that degradation. After a decade of charging and fast charging the battery’s capacity will be a fraction of what it was when new.

                  These are facts, indisputable and verifiable facts.

                  If you think I’m trolling then I am dead right about the intelligence of the average EV driver. They’re morons in denial about their poor purchase decisions.

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                    No one is disputing that, Strawman. We’re disputing the notion that a battery will be “royally fucked” after 10 years and that anyone “fast charges their vehicle for 10 years”, as you put it.