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This is fundamentally flawed because lithium batteries mostly degrade not because of amount of use, but because of time (and their charge state and temperature during this time). No matter if used or not, they will lose capacity. The rate of capacity loss is mainly dependent of average charge (best is 40%, worst is 100%) and temperature (best is 5 degrees C, the higher the worse).

(This is also why phone batteries fare so badly: they are often near 100% charge at 36.6 C in your pocket)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378775316...

parent dmitrygr 9 years ago

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