Lee Hart wrote > - Lithiums are promising. 3x the range, but over 3x the cost of lead. > They only pay for themselves if the life claims turn out to be > true. So far, none of the lithiums I've tested except A123 > cells have met their specs. In particular, most lithiums are > shot in 3-5 years.
We're getting to the point where a fair number of people are into the 3-5 year age with their lithium packs (I'm only starting my 2nd year with mine). It'd be pretty important to know how many are having to replace packs so early when the expectation should be 6-10 years; something like 2000-3000 cycles (in my car that should be at least 80,000 miles, though I'm guessing I won't make that for other reasons). I'm a skeptic too, and I'm inclined to believe you and others with real world experience than the spec sheets from CALB. But still ... can you expand upon why you're so pessimistic on lithiums? ----- Dan Gallagher http://www.evalbum.com/3854 -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Range-tp4665484p4665533.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
