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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.

Trends

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.

Alonso AguilarJune 13, 20268 min
How it works

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.

SOHpro TeamJune 9, 202611 min
How it works

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.

Alonso AguilarJune 3, 202611 min
Outside
0 visible damage

Flawless
on the outside.

Bodywork without a mark. The visual inspection passes it.

Inside — the BMS reading

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.

Voltage map · 96 cells · 2 critical
MIN3.52AVG3.91MAX3.94
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HealthyOperationalBorderlineCritical
Thermal sensor
Cell 7 · 58 °C
SOHpro · post-impact diagnostic · the weak link
Guides

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.

SOHpro TeamMay 28, 20269 min