Does anyone know how Kia measures battery degradation for warranty purposes? The Canadian warranty for my 2020 says: "The Lithium-Ion Polymer Battery ("EV Battery") Capacity warranty coverage period is 8 years or 150,000 kilometres from the Date of First Service, whichever comes first, for capacity loss below 65% of the original battery capacity. " Is this based on some diagnostic readout? Oh and this is weird. I downloaded the Kia Niro EV warranty pdf and the text, when I read it in firefox says what I've quoted above. If I copy and paste the text from firefox, I get this: "The Lithium-Ion Polymer Battery (䳖EV Battery䳗) Capacity warranty coverage period is 8 years or 160,000 kilometres from the Date of First Service, whichever comes first, for capacity loss below 70% of the original battery capacity." Notice that the distance and percentage are different. Weird.
My 2019 warranty document says 70%. I presume this means 70% of the specced battery, so this would not count the 4-5 kWh of reserve capacity. How they measure it, I dunno.