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Goyds
02-13-2012, 08:11 PM
G'day again everyone

I've got a suggestion for a few of the petrol teams out there. Our car is an electric vehicle and so uses lithium batteries. I know most teams use a lead acid battery for their cranking bettery and depending on what you expect from it they typicaly range from 1-3kgs.

I've noticed that nobody i can find uses lithium cranking batteries. They might not be worth the expence for a car with a 1kg battery but as they are about 1/3 the weight they seem to become pretty good value in a weight/cost if your lead acid battery is 3kgs.

Just a thought.

Lloyd Morrissey
Chief Engineer
Team Swinburne 2012

Goyds
02-13-2012, 08:11 PM
G'day again everyone

I've got a suggestion for a few of the petrol teams out there. Our car is an electric vehicle and so uses lithium batteries. I know most teams use a lead acid battery for their cranking bettery and depending on what you expect from it they typicaly range from 1-3kgs.

I've noticed that nobody i can find uses lithium cranking batteries. They might not be worth the expence for a car with a 1kg battery but as they are about 1/3 the weight they seem to become pretty good value in a weight/cost if your lead acid battery is 3kgs.

Just a thought.

Lloyd Morrissey
Chief Engineer
Team Swinburne 2012

TMichaels
02-14-2012, 01:13 AM
Actually there are a lot of combustion teams using Lithium-based starter batteries, at least in Europe. I would say about 30% do.