Batteries and Battery Management Systems
The results are in. After driving the Saturn a week it does seem like a new car. Quicker, no sulfur smell or acid, lighter, double the distance and easier to steer(front end lighter), from the first half mile drive to the one Saturday June 11 of 61 miles. The vehicle is much lighter. We removed…
Batteries are installed. Forty Eight of them, CALIB 130 ah at 3.2 volts each comes out to 153.6 volts. 182112 is the odometer reading when the Lithium batteries are installed and the key turned on The old pack was lead acids 18 of the 8 volt golf cart deep cycle Exide 150 ah running 144…
Changing over from the lead acids to Lithium in the LiFePO4 (lithium iron phosphate) format included different requirements physically. –Physical Differences– * Require one third less space * About half the weight * Most will be strapped with copper bars which have little flex * Batteries can swell when discharged or charged quickly and damage…
Well, I decided on CALIB batteries because of discussions on http://www.diyelectriccar.com and http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html . Specifications Model:SE130AHA Keegan Han is the manager at Calib Power Inc. The company is a quisi-China government company, like a retail outlet for CALIB . I emailed him and he quickly replied. We emailed a few more times and talked on…
The following table is a list of lithium phosphate, electric car suitable, available and beyond the testing phase batteries. As before, there are NO USA lithium battery companies selling to the independent EVers. ———————————— Brand Distributors Manufacture Info Wilson (Thundersky) Lithiumstorage AllianceRenewableEnergy EVolveElectrics CurrentEvTech Winston Battery Limited, Shenzhen in PRC, China GBS RebirthAuto ElectricMotorSport…
LiFePo4 Battery Price Comparisons November 2010, Non-West Coast USA Since the old battery order will not ever arrive, lets start over again. Price comparison and deliver time and trust factor. I will edit this list if more info needs including. Not going to do it I am not going to do these 3 things again…..…
EV Components has gone out of business and so has my money for the Thundersky batteries and the Elithion BMS. The owner ….. ……. made the following several replies at this forum DIYElectricar.Com. ……………………..bankrupt EVComponents owner and under lawsuit from customers that never received components. Sitting in his Telsa His first answer for the delays…
The LiFePo4 Thundersky 160ah batteries are ordered from EV Components (added note: They are now bankrupt!!!). They should arrive in late April. The battery management system (BMS) I decided on is the Elithion also from EV Components. I most trust someone and the convincing argument points were; one, an extra year of warranty (may need it…
BMS Battery Management System for Electric Vehicles running Lithium Batteries Some requirements: Able to do 45 cells or more, Isolate battery pack from overcharge, Isolate battery pack at low state of charge, Designed for LiFePo4 batteries, Give a price Some track record? This is a collection of information I have collected and gathered together to…
Here are some price comparisons for Lithium-ion Polymer batteries of the LiFePo4 Iron safe type suitable for FEV full electric vehicles. Cheapest is not required but does not hurt. Not sure of shipping, for some since they require you to call them for transportation costs. Some examples are 160ah, 180ah and 200ah because that is…