SageBrush said:DougWantsALeaf said:It seems you could build a single piece top battery cover with a molded heat exchanging set of small tubes and then put a small fan in the pack to push the air across those tubes. Even a modest amount of additional cooling would make long distances less frustrating.
The only practical way I can think of to mitigate rapid-gating from serial DC fast charging is to drive slowly. 55 mph Vs 70 mph would be close to 40% less pack heat generation. And somewhat paradoxically but for similar reasons, you may want to to avoid charging in the low SoC range so that the car keeps to lower charging amperage.
From from great, but I think travel times better than what you and others have posted are possible. When it comes to the LEAF, patience is a virtue :lol:
Yes, this has been stated many times, but they never seem to understand even a little of thermodynamics.
There's always a new way to cool or minimize increasing battery heat that hasn't been thought of, right?