Who Revived the Electric Car
At a party last weekend my friends Eric and Earl (both Leaf and Tesla owners, incidentally) gave me the idea of looking for batteries from a junked Nissan Leaf. What I ended up finding was that salvaged GM Chevy Volts were a little more common (and a little cheaper). The Volt carries 16kWh of energy in its 288 LiMn2O4 pouch cells. That's 384v / 45Ah. That's twice the voltage and half the capacity that I need. I could probably reconfigure the batteries in some series-parallel combination to get what I need. I'm not sure, but there's only one way to find out. |
| Click this to view a document I found online about the Volt battery pack |
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