Re:Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up
by oceanplexian on Thursday December 05, 2019 @10:23PM
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Yeah I have an EV that gets 240 miles on a warm summers day but it drops down to like 160 on a day where it’s below freezing climbing a mountain. I’m OK with that. It’s still an absurd amount of range for a technology that would have been unthinkable a decade or two ago. I think once EVs start surpassing ICE cars in range it will be a non issue for most people.
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Re:Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up
by daveFNbuck on Thursday December 05, 2019 @10:51PM
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A 33% drop in efficiency sounds reasonable for climbing a mountain vs driving on flat land. Do you know how much your range drops when you're driving in the cold but not climbing a mountain?
Re:Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up
by koheripbal on Friday December 06, 2019 @02:41AM
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Mine drops that much when below freezing on a FLAT surface. On one hand, it's better than prior systems. On the other hand, it's still abysmally worse than conventional systems.
This is just one of the many risks of being an early adopter, I suppose.
I agree that once this major bottleneck is removed, the vehicle will be much more competitive - assuming the fix doesn't increase the cost too much.
Re:Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up
by manmal on Friday December 06, 2019 @12:40AM
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Some EVs just heat their battery, which limits the loss of range. The power for heating can be automatically drawn from the charging station in the early morning. Some EVs also start heating the cabin when you schedule it and they are plugged in (eg Ioniq).
EVs can also start and go without any problems in conditions where gas cars give up (-20 celcius).