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Originally Posted by Badge
This firm in Glasgow is converting a Peugeot taxi
and giving a six year battery warranty.Do they
know something that we don,t?
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Depends on the application Badge. The NiMh batteries in the Toyota Prius have an 8 year warranty, but that's achieved by cycling the charge at intermediate levels, the top and bottom 20% of the capacity never used.
That's fine in a hybrid where the petrol engine is available, but only 3/5ths of the range in an e-car wouldn't be ok. A taxi working locally and able to have fast top ups can be a different matter of course. Equally if it's working in a fairly flat area that can be done using lead acid traction batteries.
For the same reasons, electric vans have always been viable and have run on our roads for much of the last 80 years, I remember Harrods delivering with them over many decades.
It's the predictability of the usage that makes this possible, something not true of private cars.
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