On 27 Mar 2014 at 17:19, Bruce EVangel Parmenter wrote: > Different people have different needs, and some are willing to pay for a > larger range Leaf EV.
One of the (theoretical) advantages of a larger capacity battery is that you charge less often for a given daily mission. If you can go twice as far between 80% DOD discharges, your battery should last twice as long. Also, you could continue using the battery even if it fell to, say, 50% capacity. I'd have to do the math with the real world numbers, but that might make the higher initial cost worth it. Where this argument might trip over itself, though, is in battery calendar life. Sometimes it's years, not cycles, that cause lithium to lose capacity. David Roden EVDL Administrator http://www.evdl.org/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
