<div><div dir="auto">As an investor in battery startups i would keep an eye on Li FePO4. Prices are dropping, it is used in china for low cost electric vehicles and factories need to fill up capacity now that the bigger cars moved to other lithium chemistries. it is somewhat safer than other lithium batteries (harder to set on fire and lower peak temperature in case of thermal run away)</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Lithium sulfur is still very limited in number of cycles. It may be ok for our applications but given the price you d want something that lasts a bit. Oxis is a leader there.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sodium ion is another contender for performance between lead acid and lithium ion. Cost and safety will be good too. Waiting for Faradion notably. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards </div><div dir="auto">Antoine </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le jeu. 9 avr. 2020 à 15:34, via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="color:black;font:12pt Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Alan,
<div>Nuytco built a bunch of lithium equipped DW3000s for Russia.The weight and charge rates were astonishing. As was the price, apparently. I wonder how those battery banks are holding up now that they are in the field.</div>
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<div>I have been watching the progress of lithium sulphur & other new lithium
<div>battery technologies & they seem to be inching closer to commercialisation </div>
<div>with a few break throughs recently.
<div>There are figures of 700 W/L ( Watts per Litre) being touted.</div>
<div>Lead acid have an energy density of 80 W/L & they recommend not discharging</div>
<div>them below 50%, so 40 W/L. Lithium batteries have a depth of discharge of 80% </div>
<div>so in the case of the 700 W/L battery that would be 560 W/L available.</div>
<div>This means 14 X more power available for the same amount of space using the</div>
<div>new lithium technology.</div>
<div><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.greencarcongress.com/2020/03/20200315-sion.html" target="_blank">https://www.greencarcongress.com/2020/03/20200315-sion.html</a></div>
<div>It might be worth keeping in mind for future builds, as it may make things like</div>
<div>air conditioning & extra or larger motors a more viable consideration.</div>
<div>I know they have always said that the lithium sulphur batteries will be cheaper</div>
<div>than lead acid on a W/L basis.</div>
<div>Below is a chart showing comparisons between lead acid & a standard lithium</div>
<div>ion battery.</div>
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