Not to mention the fact that using a Battery heat it. Charging also causes it to heat so using the battery while charging would beat the battery even more.
Sent from my iPhone > On May 31, 2015, at 2:13 PM, Peri Hartman via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > My first comment: did they have a great EV grin ! > > On the A/C. I think running the A/C while in the garage would make things > worse. Don't forget that the waste heat from the A/C dumps right back into > the garage, so only the interior of the car would be cooler. Whether that > means a net cooling or heating of the battery I don't know, but I can't > imagine it being helpful overall. > > Does the Leaf model they bought have battery thermal control? If so, keeping > that running would help, right, even though you would dump a bit more heat > into the garage. > > Third, even a window-mount A/C unit could have an effect on keeping the > garage cooler. > > Other things that could help the garage temperature. Insulate the space. > Install fan ventilation - at least that will prevent it from getting hotter > inside than out. Put a highly reflective coating on the roof to reflect more > sunlight. Sigh, all of these things cost money... > > Peri > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "Ben Goren via EV" <[email protected]> > To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <[email protected]> > Sent: 31-May-15 12:03:27 PM > Subject: [EVDL] Success! > >> So, Dad just drove Mom home in a 2013 Leaf. ~12k miles, California vehicle; >> couldn't tell it from new. There was one bar missing from the charge gauge; >> the numeric meter read, "98%." >> >> Everybody's excited. It should be well and truly perfect for them. >> >> One thought I had that I'm hoping somebody might be able to shed some >> insight into...they'll be keeping the car in the garage, but the garage >> isn't climate controlled. It probably won't quite get to today's forecasted >> high of 108°F inside the garage, but it'll definitely get rather toasty. >> >> What are the chances that the car will let you run the air conditioning >> while it's plugged in with nobody inside? Would that actually do anything to >> make the batteries happier? >> >> b& >> -------------- next part -------------- >> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >> Name: signature.asc >> Type: application/pgp-signature >> Size: 801 bytes >> Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail >> URL: >> <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150531/255be410/attachment.pgp> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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) > > _______________________________________________ > 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) > _______________________________________________ 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)
