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Today was a great day for the EV! This last weekend, I finally broke down and purchased a new battery. This kind of goes against everything this car is about, but I ultimately decided that it was in my best interest to have one good battery to give me a baseline of sorts. All my experiences so far have been with used batteries and I just don't feel like I will ever know what a "new" battery would act under my specific conditions. I believed it would give me a better understanding of batteries in general to have a new one to compare to. In the short term, I had the advantage of taking out my lowest battery and making it my best. I replaced my alum conversion battery. As it turns out, the new battery is still not my "best" battery: that title remains in the hands of Mega-Tron. Anyway, today I showed the highest voltage ever: 79.6v! That is a full volt higher than any previous reading. The car did drive quite a bit spritelier than ever today. On another note, the battery replacement had the advantage of showing me a hidden crack in my battery rack. I welded that up and also put in a reinforcement bar. So last weekend was very productive indeed, even if there wasn't as much done on the Toyota as I would have liked....
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