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GM is probably the best of the EV manufacturers for battery maintenance. Unlike Nissan, who just seems to be just giving the consumer the finger on this issue: GM's systems do active thermal management of the battery pack, and keep charge headroom to prevent the battery from fully charging or discharging.

There's people driving around on 2011/2012 Gen1 Volts with no battery degradation and very high milage.



Both fingers since I can’t upgrade to the 30 kWh because ... because of very complicated reasons that you can’t understand but trust us they’re good reasons.




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