My current employer is moving offices quite a distance. I am debating or not staying with the company based on a number of factors. One thing is due to the distance, in order to make it to the new office and back 2 days a week, I would need to charge the car to 100% especially in the winter (I am in southern Ontario) as the office does not have a charger to use.
The office is already a really significant distance from my house and I don’t want to spend an already 2 hour commute stopping at a charger on the way home.
So my real question is, is it really bad to charge to 100% twice a week or will the degradation on my battery start to worsen quicker?
Are you willing to trade 25% of your daily personal time for unpaid commute time? Have you factored in you what that commute time will do to your health & well being? Have you thought through the additional travel costs, insurance costs and depreciation of the vehicle?
Like I said, there are a lot of factors to concider and the car is just one part.
In the German studies of driving, not only did heart rate increase, but there were also electrocardiographic changes such as ST segment depressions and T-wave inversions that suggest ischemia (inadequate blood flow to the heart). In fact, when the German investigators focused on patients known to have coronary artery disease, approximately half the patients showed pathological EKG changes while driving. And in the English studies, when the drivers with heart disease showed an increase in their heart rates, they also showed an increase in ectopic heartbeats and pathological changes on their cardiograms. Moreover, occasional patients developed angina and left ventricular failure while driving.