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How does 12 years required for this scheme to pay for itself stack up against the typical house battery's lifetime?


Also, as more batteries get added to the grid, the difference between the "cheap" and "expensive" energy prices ought to reduce.


Eh, there’s a tension there, becuase on the other hand as more renewable power is added to the grid, you’d expect divergence. Especially in countries which are letting people buy at spot price; that can be horribly expensive, or go _negative_.


Sounds like that's roughly the average usable lifetime for the battery, so you will break even on average.


I think most electric car batteries are still at over 80% capacity after 10 years usage, so hopefully you can use them much longer than that.

If you only cycle then in the 20-80% range, they'll last much longer (at least for NMC cells, not sure how LFP works).


I'd imagine most electric car batteries aren't fully charging and discharging every day. That makes quite a bit of difference in wear!

Tons of EVs these days are being made with what, 200-300mi range of battery pack with some internal buffer as well so they're never really going 0-100%? So what, we'll be generous here about the 20-80% and think 160mi of range used every day. That's 58,400mi of driving per car! The average US car does closer to 14,000mi. Being generous, that's 4x the wear cycles of a normal US automobile.


Roughly the usable lifetime? Based on what?


The battery linked in the article (https://eu.ecoflow.com/products/stream-series-solar-battery) advertises a 15 year lifespan and 10 year warranty. Personally I would expect batteries to last longer than that but 12 years feels fair




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