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Battery health, in plain words
Accessible science, market trends, and practical guides on the one thing that defines an electric's value: its battery health.
How Much Battery Will You Lose in 8 Years? What an EV Owner Can Actually Expect
The question every EV owner asks sooner or later: how much range am I going to lose over the years? The honest answer comes down to three things — and in Latin America, one of them is simply where you live.
Why does one person swear charging to 100% is fine and another says it kills the battery?
Your neighbor swears he charges to 100% every day with zero problems. The forum says that's exactly how you murder a battery. They can both be right—it comes down to the chemistry inside your EV.
How Your EV Battery Really Ages (and How Long It Will Last)
The fear says you'll be swapping the battery in a few years. Reality is almost the opposite: it dips a little early on, settles, and outlives the car itself. Here's how degradation actually plays out, year by year.
What Your Insurer Is About to Start Asking For: Battery Health and the Total-Loss Trap
Insurers across the region are figuring out that covering an electric isn't the same as covering a gas car. And the one number they're missing to do it right is, of all things, the health of your battery.
not the end.
Every VIN you deliver can come back to you: service, referrals and resale.
Your customer will resell that EV someday — and that's good news for you
For most importers, the sale ends when the car rolls off the lot. For the one who plays the long game, that's exactly where the most valuable asset begins.
The battery sets you apart.
Verifiable trust —the sales argument price no longer gives you.
The battery: the sales argument the EV importer still isn't using
The business of importing EVs has changed: everyone now brings in the same Chinese models at similar prices. The next edge isn't price. It's trust —and there's a hard number behind it.
Chinese EVs in Latin America: good batteries, big warranties—and how to get the most out of both
Chinese brands gave Latin America mass access to electric mobility, with durable LFP chemistry and generous warranties. If you own one, you made a smart buy—here's how to get the most out of that battery and that warranty.
Heat, mountains and fast charging: what really wears out your battery in LATAM
Battery-care guides are almost always written for temperate climates. In Latin America the rules change. Here's what the science actually says speeds up — or slows down — wear in the region.
The first scan: why your brand-new EV needs a passport too
The best moment to start your electric's passport isn't the day you sell it. It's the day they hand you the keys — and the degradation curve explains exactly why.
The two clocks of aging: why your battery gets older even when you don't use it
A battery ages two ways at once: by the calendar and by the use. The electrochemistry of the two clocks explains why tropical heat weighs as heavily as the miles —and why extreme cold does damage too.
a good century.
For the electric, it's no longer the number that says what it's worth.
SOH is the new mileage: why the odometer no longer tells you what an EV is worth
Two identical EVs, the same 30,000 km, and thousands of dollars apart. The reason is the one thing the odometer can't see: the health of the battery.
We don't mail you a gadget. SOHpro reads the diagnostic your shop already generates —a photo of the screen, a PDF, a CSV— and turns it into a score that lives on the VIN.
Carry on. Next check at your regular maintenance.
No boxes, no cables: how SOHpro pulls a score from a photo of your scanner
Most battery-health solutions mail you an OBD box. SOHpro does something different: it reads the diagnostic your shop already generates. Here's how —and why that fits Latin America.
Anatomy of a score: how battery health is really measured
A single number from the BMS can fool you. We pop the hood on the SOHpro Score and show the six signals — and the electrochemistry behind each one — you have to cross-check to know whether a battery is truly healthy.
Flawless
on the outside.
Bodywork without a mark. The visual inspection passes it.
The battery doesn't lie.
The impact left no trace on the panels, but it did inside: two cells lost their voltage balance, and the temperature gives them away.
Salvage, flood cars and lemons: how to buy a used electric without surprises
The used-electric market is filling up, and not everything that shines is healthy. The science of why a battered or flooded battery can't be dressed up — and how to keep it from following you home.