Re: (ET) Lithiums in an E15

[Charlie <medievalist gmail com>]

You'd get more benefit from NiMH,  I think.  And you won't have to
worry so much about the extreme safety hazard; NiMH and NiCDs seem to
be far less hazardous than acid-flooded batteries or the highly
flammable LiIONs

Used Prius battery packs run less than a thousand dollars in the USA.
They are NiMH and weigh about a hundred pounds - you could fit three
or four of them in a garden tractor.  I guess you'd want to rewire
them as parallel rather than series strings, though; the Prius runs
high voltage.

--Charlie

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Chris Zach <cz alembic crystel com> wrote:
> So my 94 Prizm's electric batteries stink. And I have thought of 
> replacing
> them with a 10k lithoium pack.
>
> Then I thought "Why not try lithium batteries in the E15?" So much more
> exotic than mere NiCDs. :-)
>
> So has anyone tried it? I'm thinking 10 TS 60-70ah batteries should match
> the Trac's charger (hee hee) and a small BMS should work on top.
>
> Insane?
>
> Chris
>
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