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Cycle budget

A battery's warranty is a budget and every cycle spends it. One set of beliefs β€” spreads, fade, calendar ageing β€” priced at three horizons: what a cycle is worth today, whether the second cycle pays this year, and when augmentation stops being early and starts being late.

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Click any number on the diagram to edit it Β· ribbons are days, whiskers are your beliefs

What a cycle is worth

Desks argue "should we cycle for this spread?" with instinct; warranty managers answer with a cap; this tool answers with a price. A cycle destroys a little capacity forever β€” that has a value. And it spends one unit of a finite warranty budget β€” that has a shadow price whenever the budget rations you below the days worth cycling. The dispatch threshold is whichever is higher, and the tool says which one is doing the work: "cycles are worth Β£41 each; it's the warranty doing the rationing, not the wear." The second cycle and the augmentation window are the same beliefs read at the year and asset-life horizons β€” a policy difference and a re-simulated remainder, never a partial formula.

Named simplifications, so the tool can't oversell itself: spread is the achieved spread β€” market depth and dispatch quality are your problem, not the model's. Degradation is linear in cycles and time on the ranges you state β€” a belief container, not electrochemistry; bring your OEM's curve as a range, not a point. The charge-price leg is a level, not a shape. Augmentation restores nameplate and inherits the remaining warranty budget. And spreads stay flat over the life unless you say otherwise with drift: β€” omitting it flatters augmentation, and the tool warns you so.

The tool prices your stated beliefs; it never claims the market will look like your ranges, and it isn't a dispatch optimiser. Sources: Douglas Hubbard on calibrated 90% intervals (How to Measure Anything).

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