lithium batteries
Has anyone ever heard about using lithium batteries in a RV?
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The Tesla car was following a truck that had a piece of angle steel fall off and was projected up into the bottom of the Tesla with a force later calculated of more than 25 tons. The piece of metal pierced the shield around the batteries and pierced multiple batteries which then shorted out. The batteries then caught fire.
Had this happened to a standard car the gas tank would have been punctured and the car could have burst into flames and there would have been no survivors. Electric cars are the safest ones to be in with a crash and have the highest crash ratings of any cars on the road today.
Lithium batteries are expensive but comparatively light and compact for the power they can store. This has value in a jet or an electric care but zero value in an RV. Know of any light RV's? Even if the RV started out as light most are carrying around an extra 1000 lbs. or more of stuff. Saving 40 lbs. with a lithium battery is hardly cost effective.
Flooded and AGM and Gel types of batteries are mass produced by the millions and distributed by the truck load. No way a consumer lithium battery can compete on cost in the volumes they are produced and sold. If your RV has a vented battery compartment the flooded lead acid type are the best batteries to get. You can spend more but you will not get more in doing so.
Had this happened to a standard car the gas tank would have been punctured and the car could have burst into flames and there would have been no survivors. Electric cars are the safest ones to be in with a crash and have the highest crash ratings of any cars on the road today.
Lithium batteries are expensive but comparatively light and compact for the power they can store. This has value in a jet or an electric care but zero value in an RV. Know of any light RV's? Even if the RV started out as light most are carrying around an extra 1000 lbs. or more of stuff. Saving 40 lbs. with a lithium battery is hardly cost effective.
Flooded and AGM and Gel types of batteries are mass produced by the millions and distributed by the truck load. No way a consumer lithium battery can compete on cost in the volumes they are produced and sold. If your RV has a vented battery compartment the flooded lead acid type are the best batteries to get. You can spend more but you will not get more in doing so.
