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Originally Posted by rmay635703
But is the energy wasted to heat worth it?
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I would have to run the battery under my own operating conditions to see what effect my driving cycle would have on it. But the company that builds them quotes a 17KWh module as having a parasitic heat loss of <110w, so a potential loss to heat of 2.64KWh daily, or 964KWh yearly, assuming no charge/discharge heat offset.
My plan would be to use solar panels on such a vehicle anyway, and be able to generate in excess of 5KWh per day. Ahh, my hopes and dreams which will never be fulfilled.
Also, as much as I like the energy density on some Lithium mixtures I've seen, they're still very voltage sensitive, and while certainly a vehicular pack should, I have no guarantee they'll last longer than my last laptop pack. Which was <3 years to unable to hold a charge. And in such a case I'd be money ahead on the Zebra battery. Really, at any point <10 years on the Lithium pack, I'd still be money ahead, even if that power to run the heat came from the grid.