This US Dept of Energy paper is interesting. 34 pages so too long to reproduce here. However, here is a link. They do observe that there can be differences between manufacturers so one has to be careful generalising. They tested over a three year period and did NCA (earlier Teslas), NCM 811 (MIC LR and P) and LFP (MIC SR+). They used 18650s but the real focus was on the characteristics of each chemistry.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information
www.osti.gov
Here are their conclusions. However, I suggest reading the whole paper, or at least pages 1-13:
"Commercial Li-ion batteries based on NMC, NCA, and LFP chemistries were cycled with varying temperature, depth of discharge, and discharge rate. The capacity and discharge energy retention, as well as the round-trip efficiency, were compared. The dependence on each cycling variable was analyzed qualitatively as well as by analysis of variance. Key insights from this work include:
1) Even within manufacturer specified operating ranges, the equivalent full cycle count at 80% capacity varied up to thousands of cycles depending on the conditions.
2) LFP cells had the highest cycle lifetime across all conditions, but this performance gap was reduced when cells were compared according to the discharge energy throughput. The latter metric factored in the lower capacity and lower voltage of the LFP cells, illustrating the importance of identifying the appropriate metrics for each application.
3) The RTE can vary up to 10% among fresh cells depending on the cycling conditions and can decrease over 5% as a cell ages. LFP cells generally had higher RTEs at all conditions and for all cells, RTE consistently decreased with increasing discharge rate.
4) Based on the current work and a review of previous commercial cell studies, trends in temperature, depth of discharge, and discharge rate dependence are chemistry specific. Variable dependence in one chemistry should not be broadly extrapolated to all lithium-ion batteries.
5) In the 15 to 35°C temperature range, the capacity fade rate increased with increasing temperature for LFP cells but decreased for NMC cells, indicating different dominant degradation mechanisms. These results illustrate the value of varying multiple temperatures within a normal operating range rather than looking solely at extreme temperatures. The gap in preferred conditions for LFP and NMC cells has implications for battery thermal management. A survey of the literature and the results here suggest that LFP cells are more suited for lower temperature applications.
6) The NMC and NCA cells exhibited a stronger dependence on depth of discharge, with greater sensitivity to full SOC range cycling than LFP cells.
7) Battery degradation models would benefit from the incorporation of larger data sets and reporting values with a standard deviation. Most models are evaluated against a single experimental data set, but a comparison of the degradation data in this study to previous commercial cell cycling studies shows the variation possible even under the same conditions."
www.sciencedirect.com
