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John___Angela
Nov 29, 2015Explorer
We have a 17 KW battery in our EV. Its actually 20 but mercedes derates out of the box. It occupys a good portion of the bottom of the vehicle. It would be easy to fit in a motorhome. The trick would be to get the electronics together to invert the output to 120 volts. It will be interesting to see how EV battery packs make it to secondary markets as they are harvested from car wreck write offs of all the EV's that are making it to market now. Even some of the early Prius units from 12 years ago that only had 2 to 3 KW's will have market value. The first leafs with 24KW packs had some overheating issues in hot climates so a number of them will be getting changed out under warranty although I suspect nissan will be keeping them and recycling them. Gotta figure though. Take an electric smart car like ours. Its expected to lose 20 percent of its capacity over 10 years. So lets say in 15 years when the car is sold off and the battery pack still has 12 to 14 KW. There is already an industry springing up around re-purposing EV batteries. A 14 KW battery would still be a heck of an addition to an RV. Read air conditioning for an entire night with no running of the genny etc. Should be an interesting decade.
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