The volt also runs the engine a bit in cold weather to warm up the batteries which probably helps the life. It’s a ‘feature’ I didn’t like at first but have accepted.
-Steve > On Dec 19, 2020, at 11:07 AM, Peter VanDerWal via EV <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Depends on how the vehicle is designed. I don't know about the Rav4, but I > am familiar with the Chevy Volt. From what I understand, because of the way > Chevy designed them, even the original Volts still have 100% of their > original battery range. > > What Chevy did was never allow you to use 100% of the battery's capacity. > They always maintained the battery somewhere between 10-20% SoC and 80-90% > SoC. The system is designed to never allowed it to fully charge, or fully > discharge. This not only extended the battery life significantly, but > allowed a buffer so that as the battery ages you lose the buffer rather than > the core range. > I'm sure eventually they will run out of buffer and then the owners will > start to see a drop in range, but even on the 10 year old vehicles that's not > happening yet. > > I just wish that Chevy's marketing and sales folks were 1/2 as good as their > engineers. > >>> 42 Miles EV range and 3 full size back row seats. (compared to Prius >>> Prime range of only 25 mi.) Her daily average mileage is on the order of 35 >>> mi+. >> >> That 20% doesn't seem like much of a range buffer. Seems to me she's likely >> to run short in cold weather, and probably on hot summer days when whe wants >> aircon. >> >> The range will fall as the battery ages, too. At 80% battery capacity, it >> won't be enough no matter what the conditions are. >> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
