A manufacturer often provides Electric Car Battery Basics with a nominal capacity battery, which might as 24Kwh or 54Kwh. You must remember that, unlike the fuel tank, you can not access the full nominal capacity battery. In order to maintain battery life and prevent other damage, manufacturers use a “country fee” system. This “state of charge” the system never let the battery out cost and never let it charge to 100%. This allows you to access only 60 to 70% of the rated capacity. When you compare the battery capacity of the various models, this fact should be kept in your mind.
Next consideration is charging. The most important aspect of charging the costs associated with the process. The cost varies with the location you choose for the cost, time that you select (time to peak or off peak time), the charger voltage and battery size. You can save a lot of money if you fill your vehicle during the night (off peak time). Location is another factor that affects the cost of charging. Example: the high cost of electricity in Miami compared to other locations. The more the size of the battery, the more time it takes to fill and cost so much.
Charging power from 120 volts and 240 volt charger has a fairly large difference in the time required to complete the filling process. Last aspect associated with battery charging losses that occur in the form of heat dissipation during charging. Example: If 12Kwh is all that is needed to charge your battery fully then only 10Kwh actually go to the battery. 2Kwh lost as heat!
Range is the final aspect of a battery EV’s. This is the same with the distance – how far the EV runs with a fully charged battery and that is what the range is all about. Problems with a range no one can precisely predict a range of EV’s. It really depends on variations in temperature, rapid acceleration by the driver, often a way of braking, driving etc. all affect battery performance. So if a manufacturer claims a range of 100 miles then you might expect 70.
In some conditions turn around you can even get 120 + mile range! This depends on the external aspect very much like what I mentioned above. Range may be different even in the same model of EV’s. Example: Two Leaves Nissan EV might give different ranges. The only way out there to predict a range EV is by testing, by trial and error. Take your EV through different paths, different conditions, different styles of driving and then record the ranges for each case is different. This will give you an idea of your electric vehicle range in general.
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