Not long ago I would have thought that 100 mile range is plenty. But I've been doing contract work for the last few years and keeping up an ongoing job search all the while. I'm just outside Philadelphia, and I've noticed that the engineering jobs I'm suited for are moving farther away. At my last job I had a 90 mile 2-way commute, and I was amazed that LOTS of other people there did the same thing.
So if I want to commute to work where I live, I might very well need a 150 mile range to have a reasonable cushion. (Out here on the east coast most people don't even know what a "charging station" is, so charging at work cannot be assumed.) I used to think 100 mile range would be plenty to permit widespread use of EVs. I'm not so sure any more. I think 150 is the new 100. Chris On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:20 AM, EVDL Administrator <[email protected]>wrote: > 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) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140329/0c45d646/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ 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)
