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Another benefit is batteries degrade with age worse than they do with use. So high mileage applications are perfect, way less stuff wears out with mileage than
by jackmott42 3y ago
Another benefit is batteries degrade with age worse than they do with use. So high mileage applications are perfect, way less stuff wears out with mileage than a gasoline/diesel truck. A delivery van can put enough miles on to wear the chassis out before the battery pack degrades too much from age.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoI drove pure electric (bmw i3) for 7+ years, and i'm unclear on what "age" means here, since recharge cycles I thought of as defining age, combined with the ambient temps of the battery pack during discharge and recharge.
- ms512 3y agoRechargeable battery wear can be separated out into (1) cycle aging and (2) calendar aging. One of those typically dominates the total battery degradation, depending on the use case. EVs for personal use tend to have calendar aging dominate the overall battery degradation early in their life.
- jackmott42 3y agoThe other reply got it right, but I would add that the higher the temperature the faster the pack degrades, even when it is just sitting there.
- ortusdux 3y agoHow do/did you like it? I'm suppose to test drive one next week.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoi3 pure electric was great but they dont make them anymore
- ortusdux 3y agoFor the scale they are operating at, it wouldn't be crazy to pull batteries that dip below a set kWh/lb value and use them as electricity storage.