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Originally Posted by Chance
Yes, chemistry is very different which is what makes it a lot safer as far as fires go. For RV use, this works great because power demands are relatively low, so the typical 1C charging and discharging rates are enough. For an electric car that would never be enough power. On hybrid cars I’ve seen 0.5 kWh batteries working at up to ~ 20 kW which is an order of magnitude higher than needed for RV use.
The biggest problem I see is that the cost of these RV lithium batteries is still a lot higher per kWh than what the auto industry is paying for theirs.
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Yeah the cost will be an issue: Given that it is a different chemistry they can't take advantage of the scale of manufacturing for EV batteries and thus price will be higher.
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