On Mon, 02 Sep 2002 10:05:58 -0400, you wrote: >It might be within spec, but I said earlier that I hadn't heard of a >NiMH EV pack going more than 30,000 miles. I also didn't say that was >why they were returned. Just that all reports showed a replacement every >30,000 miles or so. And of the EV plus reports I looked up on the web >last night, it seemed that 3 of 5 that had a history that I looked at on >the web last night had a replecement in their history. > >I don't like NiMH due to intolerance to discharge, self discharge, heat >generation and poor cyclic life compared to NiCd. That's all. I **never >said** the Honda EV+ was a bad car, just that NiMH are not a mature >battery yet. I should know, I shipped a few thousand packs last year. >And dealt with the returns and the fires. Those were consumer NiMH >batteries with peak detecting chargers with timers and thermal >protection too. So I have a little experience with NiMH.
Hopefully I'm learning something from your posts, thanks for passing this on. I wonder if the problems you are seeing wouldn't be somewhat less in a major-manufacturer installation of a made-for-EV battery such as we see in the RAV4 and Ranger? And perhaps even those vehicles will have even longer-lived batteries in a next generation (considering they are only the first or second generation of such vehicles?)
