So to start with, I am working off the EVWest assumption that a large car will use 300Wh/Mile, converting that number to Metric, I come to around 187Wh/kilometre
So the wife's daily commute is around the 180 kilometre mark, which means that she should use around the 33,660Wh to do that trip, or 33.66kWh
Anyway, I have a 24kWh LEAF sitting here, and it's just not enough. However, there's bulk room in the Volkswagen, and it had me wondering, as the packs are all modular, can I just....find another wrecked LEAF and use it's batteries too? I'd probably easily be able to find the room for a further 24kWh in the Jetta, so 48kWh would be mint. It would give her a mathematical range of 235km which is more than enough to get her to work and back.
So yeah, can I just...add more batteries and get it rolling? Maybe run 2xLEAF BMS's and have the charger have some form of switchover, so charge BMS bank A to 100% and then switch over and charge BMS Bank B to 100%?
That way we can also only charge one bank if we only need one bank, and we can switch between the banks when not driving long distances so we can even out the wear on the banks.
So the wife's daily commute is around the 180 kilometre mark, which means that she should use around the 33,660Wh to do that trip, or 33.66kWh
Anyway, I have a 24kWh LEAF sitting here, and it's just not enough. However, there's bulk room in the Volkswagen, and it had me wondering, as the packs are all modular, can I just....find another wrecked LEAF and use it's batteries too? I'd probably easily be able to find the room for a further 24kWh in the Jetta, so 48kWh would be mint. It would give her a mathematical range of 235km which is more than enough to get her to work and back.
So yeah, can I just...add more batteries and get it rolling? Maybe run 2xLEAF BMS's and have the charger have some form of switchover, so charge BMS bank A to 100% and then switch over and charge BMS Bank B to 100%?
That way we can also only charge one bank if we only need one bank, and we can switch between the banks when not driving long distances so we can even out the wear on the banks.