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Do EVs have water pumps?
by linkregister 9y ago
Do EVs have water pumps?
- dangrossman 9y agoYes. EVs have liquid cooled chargers/inverters, motors, and usually batteries (the Nissan Leaf being the main exception to that). That means they have coolant tanks and water pumps to move the coolant just like an ICE.
- 205guy 9y agoThe 2015 Nissan Leaf that I looked at has a liquid cooled charger/inverter. It runs when the car is plugged in, not when driving. It runs off an electric pump and handles fairly low temps, compared to an ICE water pump driven by a belt off the engine and dealing with high temps. The Nissan manual said the coolant is expected to last 100K miles (obviously the equivalent of charging for that many miles).