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> At your price point, performance/luxury cars seem to be your only market, I'm not sure even that will be a market they can cater to as newer performance/luxu
by nacs 11y ago
> At your price point, performance/luxury cars seem to be your only market,
I'm not sure even that will be a market they can cater to as newer performance/luxury cars have a massive amount of electronics and computers inside that put a heavy continuous drain on the battery (and continue to drain even when the car isn't running).
Considering this new battery can't even hold the amount of power that a normal car battery can, I don't see it being used in high-draw luxury vehicles.
- conjecTech 11y agoWe don't think this will be a major issue. One of the nice things about LiFePo4 batteries is that it has an enormous cycle life compare to lead-acid and can provide a really high level of power throughout its entire discharge range. The power of lead-acid degrades pretty quickly and you can have significant trouble cranking your car even if it still has half of its energy available. If the electronics were using high enough amounts of energy to be a concern for our design, it would also likely mean that the cars would have trouble starting with a lead-acid.