I stand corrected - appologies for my lack of research
Out of interest, how would you define a charge cycle? Is it a complete discharge/recharge of the battery, of a partial one (as most of us do)? I suppose what I'm asking is there any way of predicting the life of the battery, based on how often it's put on charge?
No apologies needed, except perhaps from Toyota for pulling wool over customers eyes! It's an interesting thought that on Toyota's definition, all vehicles and even the humble unpowered pushbike are hybrids, since we all stop applying power downhill and let the stored kinetic energy carry us along.
And another interesting thought, unlike the Prius our e-bikes are true hybrids, using two original energy sources, human and electric.
A charge cycle is whatever you want it to be, partial or full, there's no exact definition, though with e-bikes it's usually taken to be a full one when the number of charges in a battery's life is quoted, e.g. 500 charges Li-ion manganese, 1000 charges LiFePO
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However a battery's life cannot be predicted with any accuracy due to the vastly different usages possible. For example, on the early and unreliable Li-ion manganese batteries with the more powerful bikes, in hilly areas they were failing within three to six months with owners bitterly complaining. One of mine in my very hilly area didn't even last 60 charges. At the same time owners of the same machines in flat areas were wondering what all the fuss was about as their batteries went into the second year of life still running perfectly, simply because they were cruising along at around maximum efficiency with their batteries having a very easy life at a steady moderate discharge rate.
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