Don:
Well, I've just finished my fourth season with EP and so far the pack has been holding up very nicely. I was just on the boat yesterday and fired up the Dual Pro charger and the batteries came up to charge with in thirty seconds or so of each other. I've probably only taken them down 30% at most on my trips so I'm hoping to get a lot of charge cycles out of them at that rate. I'm not sure but, I figure I might have charged them perhaps 50 times tops using the chargers over the past four years. My 1997 Honda on the other hand has already had to have it's battery replaced last year. Though it is of course of a different plate construction and gets bounced around a bit more. Part of me thinks maybe I should use these batteries at home in the winter as part of my continuing solar conversion of my house. But, the idea of lugging 800 pounds of AGM batteries around with the real chance of dropping and damaging them prevents me from actually doing it.
Capt.Mike
From: Don Parsons <tdparsons@msn.com>
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 10:28 AM
Subject: [Electric Boats] Re: new lithium battery breakthrough?
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 10:28 AM
Subject: [Electric Boats] Re: new lithium battery breakthrough?
That was an interesting link Ben,
Well worth veiwing.
Thanks , now I am late for work.
As far as the lump sum of replacing batteries is concerned.
I am not sure it is really a big problem.
Has anyone noticed that after 8-10 years the value of your
car or truck is valued as almost nothing when you go to trade it in?
If someone wanted to buy your old electric car it really would not be
cost prohibitive to get a 8-10 year old electric car cheap and put a new battery pack in it would it?, of course assuming the pack lasts
8-10 years.
Don
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, Ben Okopnik <ben@...> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 02:19:34PM +1100, Andrew Gilchrist wrote:
> >
> > Regardless batteries are not popular in cars because they confront owners with
> > high lump sum replacement cost
> >
> > That may never be resolved.
>
> Been resolved already. :)
>
> www.ted.com/talks/shai_agassi_on_electric_cars.html
>
> I love TED-talks anyway, but this guy is one of the most electrifying
> (no pun intended... OK, then, *don't* believe me :) speaker I've seen
> there. Listening to his talk is like drinking a good bottle of wine.
>
> Incidentally, the system is already in place in Israel, Sweden (IIRC),
> and Japan. *Awesome*, brilliant bit of social engineering that deals
> with exactly the problem cited above.
>
>
> --
> Ben Okopnik
> -=-=-=-=-=-
>
Well worth veiwing.
Thanks , now I am late for work.
As far as the lump sum of replacing batteries is concerned.
I am not sure it is really a big problem.
Has anyone noticed that after 8-10 years the value of your
car or truck is valued as almost nothing when you go to trade it in?
If someone wanted to buy your old electric car it really would not be
cost prohibitive to get a 8-10 year old electric car cheap and put a new battery pack in it would it?, of course assuming the pack lasts
8-10 years.
Don
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, Ben Okopnik <ben@...> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 02:19:34PM +1100, Andrew Gilchrist wrote:
> >
> > Regardless batteries are not popular in cars because they confront owners with
> > high lump sum replacement cost
> >
> > That may never be resolved.
>
> Been resolved already. :)
>
> www.ted.com/talks/shai_agassi_on_electric_cars.html
>
> I love TED-talks anyway, but this guy is one of the most electrifying
> (no pun intended... OK, then, *don't* believe me :) speaker I've seen
> there. Listening to his talk is like drinking a good bottle of wine.
>
> Incidentally, the system is already in place in Israel, Sweden (IIRC),
> and Japan. *Awesome*, brilliant bit of social engineering that deals
> with exactly the problem cited above.
>
>
> --
> Ben Okopnik
> -=-=-=-=-=-
>
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