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Old 11-30-2009, 09:00 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Also, the battery box had a number of ventilation ports on it that looked like they were thermal management.
Sounds more like ventalation for Edison batteries or flooded NICAD to me. (the year is right for them, the last gen Edison batteries were being produced then)
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Which leads me to believe that the vehicle originally had a molten salt battery pack.

I believe that this was also the type of battery that Ford was using in their EV Minivans during the "EV1 time period" of the CARB mandate.

I think that the "standard" Solectrias ran on group 27 lead-acid gel batteries.
Yes but that was years later, I doubt a salt battery would have gone in there for real world use. Normally they are in city buses and the like.
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