The writers claim of a 5 to…
The writers claim of a 5 to 10% of a vehicles battery range during the first year with any electric vehicle is complete nonsense. This may have been true of 1st generation Leaf or Tesla batteries but that was a dozen years ago.
For example, I have over 20K miles on my Ioniq 5 and after 1 year I’ve experienced absolutely no loss of range. 0%.
Tesla claims it will the average car will show a 12% battery loss capability after 200,000 miles.
So I’d buy with a EV confidence and ignore this part of the article.