RE:RE:The beauty of refining marginsintegrity11 wrote: Excellent data. Thank you for sharing. Much valuable to this board than hearing about batteries .
1 other thing i hate about battery, manufacturers will purposely format the battery to their brand. Take the common cordless tool brands, Makita, dewalt, milwaukee, ryobi, ridgid, black and decker, porter cable, hitachi, craftsman, kobalt, not to mention many other china generic brands, their batteries are all non-interchangeable. They went from Ni-Cad to Ni-MH to Li ion, from 7.2V to 9.6V, 12V, 14,4V, 18V to now common 20V. Kobalt uses 24V. Makita double up some tools to 18Vx2=36V, dewalt has the special 60V battery for heavy duty tools. For outdoor tools like electric lawnmower, you have new bunch of brands (WORX, yardwork, etc) using 24V, 40V, 80V, etc.
Apply this to EV, you have to buy battery from OEM. If your EV become unsupported or discontinued one day due to poor sales, good luck finding a replacement battery.