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I've worked on very high current automotive applications in the past. While you raise some valid points, there are generally solutions to them. I've found its b
by conjecTech 6y ago
I've worked on very high current automotive applications in the past. While you raise some valid points, there are generally solutions to them. I've found its best to think of these things on a unit level - which is why so many battery characteristics are quoted in that way. If you can think of solutions for how to get around these issues for a single battery on a bench, there tend to be tractable ways to scale them.
Heat dissipation is one of the only things that doesn't scale linearly. 6kw sounds like a lot of power, but over 10 minutes, you are only talking about 1kwh of energy - about enough to boil 10 liters of water. Given the mass of the 100kwh battery, a large fraction of that could just be absorbed as temperature gain. If you assume the specific heat of iron (which is an underestimate) and the weight of the current 100kwh batteries, its about a 13 degree C change.
- apcragg 6y agoYou're confusing energy and power which is leading you to the wrong conclusion. 6KW is 6KW of power. Over 10 minutes it's 1KWh of energy but typically you only care about instantaneous heat dissipation, which is power.
- conjecTech 6y agoI think all of my units are correct. The primary point of the second paragraph was that the kind of analysis you are pointing to is inappropriate here. Thinking of this from a server heat-sinking perspective isn't helpful because the car side of the system doesn't have to operate indefinitely in steady state and is a large thermal mass.