It’s not a secret that the Q90 powertrain built by Continental for the Renault Zoe has low charge and discharge efficiency. While the low discharge efficiency results in lower range than we have with the R90 powertrain – designed and developed in…
Electric cars: range and efficiency comparison
In order to help you compare some of the most popular electric cars currently available, I made a table with EPA range and efficiency figures.
It might help you decide which electric car is the best for you.
Electric carRangeEfficiencyCombinedCit…
Tesla Model 3 with solar roof option
Once Elon Musk was the CEO of a company called Tesla Motors, that built amazing electric cars. Now that company is just Tesla. No longer produces only electric cars, it also makes energy storage systems, with solar panels and tiles to be added to Tesla…
Renault Zoe ZE 40 battery details
Before going to the new battery, let’s see the characteristics of the older one.
You’ll find this video lecture from Renault very interesting.
First generation battery:
Total weight is 290 kg (280 kg are quoted in the video, bu…
Volkswagen’s strategy for batteries
Volkswagen’s strategy for batteries could be resumed to using the same cells for BEVs and PHEVs. It has its pros and cons. But we’ll look into it ahead.
Volkswagen currently uses 25 Ah NMC cells made by Sanyo (owned by Panasonic) to make th…
43 kWh battery for the Renault Zoe
The 43 kWh battery for the Renault Zoe was built by Imecar Elektronik Turkey in cooperation with Renault Turkey.
The 18650 format cells used appear to be the popular green cells made by Panasonic, the NCR18650B (3.400 mAh). We’re talking of more …
GS Yuasa new cells
Since 2013, GS Yuasa, Mitsubishi and Bosch are working together in a joint venture named Lithium Energy and Power with the purpose to develop better batteries for electric cars. But despite some claims from time to time about a future battery with doub…
GS Yuasa’s improved cells: LEV50 vs LEV50N
In the summer of 2012 Mitsubishi MiEV’s French brothers, Citroen C-Zero and Peugeot iOn started using a battery with reduced capacity, 14,5 kWh (80 cells) instead of 16 kWh (88 cells). Nonetheless, Mitsubishi i-MiEV kept the 16 kWh battery.
At th…