GM plans electric van for business users

Re:GM plans electric van for business users by Tade0 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @10:58AM (#23417453)

I remember when the 60kWh Model S got its EPA rating - it was 208 miles vs 265 of the 85kWh version, so roughly a 11% gain in efficiency.

Bottom line: batteries do scale - at least in terms of weight.

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Re:GM plans electric van for business users by coredog64 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @11:39AM (#23418072)

I thought Tesla used the same physical battery pack but used software to limit how much you got.

In return you get way better battery life because there’s loads of excess capacity in the battery compared to nameplate capacity

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Re:GM plans electric van for business users by Tade0 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @01:19PM (#23419237)

In the very first edition that was the case only with the 40kWh version.

The 60kWh one was fairly popular and battery prices were much greater back then, so a physically different battery was justified.

Only later did the 60kWh version shrink enough in sales for Tesla to apply this trick to it.

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