From: "Peri Hartman" <pe...@kotatko.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 02:12:45 +0000
How do the "lizard" batteries perform in cold weather?
I haven't paid careful attention to ours, but there was certainly not
some huge problem in the cold.
Regardless of range, you're saying the lizard battery won't degrade as
quickly ?
Yes. At 95K miles or so, I think our original 2013 battery was down to
7 (maybe 6) bars of battery health out of 12. We replaced it with a
2015 battery which had 11 bars even though it had 85K miles or so. 7000
miles later, it is still at 11.
My experience with the OEM battery is roughly 50% range at 25F versus
70F.
This is pretty terrible. When we had cars with lead-acid batteries we
saw this level of temperature sensitivity, but it shouldn't be so much
with lithium. Was it this bad originally or only after your battery got
old? Is it often 25F in Seattle?
If I buy a used lizard that has, say 60 mile range at 70F, what can I
expect at 25F ?
Do you want 60 miles at highway speeds or in city driving? The Leaf is
quite a lot worse on the highway. Nevertheless we drove ours 66 miles
of pure highway driving with no range anxiety immediately after getting
the battery replaced. That was February in Massachusetts, so I'm sure
it wasn't 70F, but it wasn't 25F either.
The way this worked for us is that we signed up with the shop to be
notified when a battery was available. You are entirely dependent on
someone getting in an accident that totals their car but doesn't damage
the battery. The shop called us, told us what they had, and gave us a
few days to decide whether we wanted it. So you can wait for a
less-used battery (presumably with a higher price) if you want.
Ken
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