On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Michael Ross via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Ben, > > What SRPs CEO knows and you will find out is you are diving into a rabbit > hole. It is not a rational world down there, yet. > > I will just talk about batteries. Lots of excellent points, I'll just comment on one. > On the battery front - you live an a place that gets quite hot, it get hot > when have a lot of sunlight. This means you will subject your batteries to > the worst possible conditions for their life - high heat and high state of > charge. You should know that Leaf batter packs are proving to be very a > lot of trouble in AZ and SoCal where they get hot, and Nissan did not make > provisions to col them. Some packs have lost 27% of their capacity in a > year and lawsuits are in process. The heat is killing them. You are going > to need to cool the system actively. You need to know what the exact cells > are in it and their particular needs. A mixed pack will need to have > climate control for the worst cells in it. > One thing I noticed after moving from SoCal is that almost everyone on the east coast has a basement. And even without climate control, it stays around 60 degrees down there year 'round. (Probably varies somewhat depending on locale.) If you don't have a basement, build an underground bunker with proper grading, venting and drainage. Once it's done, battery storage should be forever trouble-free. Cheap in the long run. Chris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141222/a440aeee/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)
