Lithium Storage Battery Shelf Life ?
Lead acid batteries eat themselves alive. It's what acid does for a living. I've not read anything about lithium storage batteries decomposition. When stored in an optimum maintenance fashion.
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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
In a round-about way I am gathering info. As usual I ignore published specs and instead seek real life scenarios:
Here's One
A family of four with luggage leaves Sacramento at 0500 bound for Los Angeles (around 400-miles). How many refills will it take and what time penalty for en route recharging is involved? Compare it to say a new SUV, both driven when legal at 70 mph?
That’s a toughy. Which car. So let’s say a 2018 Nissan Leaf with about 150 miles of range. So let’s dual it back a bit and say 120. I don’t know about how much time you would add as most likely you would stop for lunch or breaks anyway, but let’s say three x 40 minute charge times. So I would say two to 3 hours of charging depending on conditions. Now if an hour of that time you would be stopped and eating or having a break anyway then I would add two hours to your trip.
If it is a Bolt with 220 miles of range I would say add an hour and a half. If it was a Tesla 90 or 100 With around 300 miles of range I would say add an hour. Tesla’s have higher recharge rates although many of the current crop of 2018 EV’s have higher rates as well both fir Chademo and CCS.
Since you like real world, for us going to the lower mainland from Vernon (about 450 kilometres) in our 2016 30 KWh Leaf, it takes us an extra hour than what it used to but we charge three times to do it. Once for 10 minutes and twice for 25 minutes. This is not something we would do very often and our car is probably not the right car for this kind of trip. Better to get a new Leaf or Bolt or Tesla with bigger battery.
