Large Tesla Battery
Tesla is building the largest battery bank in the world in Australia. The capacity... 129 Mega freekin watt hours. http://newatlas.com/tesla-powerpack-australia-biggest-battery/50382
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2oldman wrote:road-runner wrote:No. Mfr says 80%. 3-5k cycles.
Can the Li battery be run all the way down without shortening its life? And I wonder how good its life is, in terms of discharge cycles, compared to a golf cart battery?
And further to this you can google a survey on how many deep cycles the average EV driver cycles their battery although i don't recall if it mentions how deep they cycle. Anyway on average users charge about 125 times per year. For us it's about 80 and we tend to recharge at the 35 to 40 percent point. We usually charge to arround 90 percent but on longer trips we charge to 100 percent the night before. One down side of charging to 100 percent is the reduced Regen braking you get at 100 percent. This is because there is no where for the power to go until the percentage of charge drops a bit. A curiosity of electric vehicles.
