fromport said:
I would alter this part though:
Uses thousand of “AA” size batteries, Panasonic 18650 / 2900mah cells
The size is imho considerably larger than AA
Yes, it's larger, but the consumer needs something that they can relate to. You could say that the cells are "slightly larger" that AA batteries.
The battery is made by Tesla
They were made by Panasonic for Tesla (on Tesla's specs)
Well, Panasonic cells produced in Japan and assembled into car battery packs by Tesla. In the future, these cells will be produced near Reno, Nevada at the Tesla Gigafactory.
about JDEMO:
Due to the costs involved Toyota/Tesla decided not to incorporate CHAdeMO charging.
That is only an assumption. A logical one, but we don't know
Well, there's no place to mount the CHAdeMO inlet on the existing Rav4 body, without changing body tooling (dies). That is grossly expensive, and not appropriate to a 2600 unit production run. That's at least part of the reason that the J1772 in behind the gasoline door.
Putting it on the nose, which would make LOTS of sense, since they made a custom nose cone, would make sense, but they couldn't even be bothered to make access to the tow hook mounts. Lazy and dumb.
It will allow me to fully charge my battery from empty in only 40 minutes!
A normal Nissan QC charger charges at 115 amps max. Depending on start/end voltage it is about 40-42 kW of charging.
So an empty battery pack will need about an hour to charge with 41.8 kWh available.
At 120 amps, about 36kW at 300v to 45.8kW absolute max at 382v.
So, I just use 40kW as my composite charge rate to 75% SOC, which means 45 minutes to 75%-80% from "dead" (30kWh added).
That is 100 miles range in 45 minutes (at 3.4 miles per kWh at 65mph without heater use).
To add the remaining 11.8kWh will take about 30 additional minutes. Probably too much info on the that sheet, however.
I would leave it at "100 miles added in 45 minutes".
