> From: John Lussmyer via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> > > On Mon Jun 06 08:44:58 PDT 2016 ev@lists.evdl.org said: >> I've wondered about this as well. Why keep the legacy 12v battery in an >> EV? Design all the lights, motors, and electronics to run on pack >> voltage, and eliminate the 12v battery, its charging circuits, and problems. > > Putting 300VDC at the fingertips of the driver and passengers?
A 300 VDC cigarette-lighter socket? Oh boy… be still, my heart… literally! Teasing aside, I do agree that Lee’s proposal makes sense… especially if everyone adopted the same pack voltage! How likely is that? 12 VDC has HUGE economies of scale for car gadget vendors. Imagine if every little auto-electric goody sold by JC Whitney had to come in a half-dozen different voltages? Anything as expensive as a stereo COULD have an integrated, wide-range voltage converter, but there are a lot of auto gadgets that are too low-cost (or too high-current) to do that for. :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op <http://www.ecoreality.org/> :::: _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
