CMU team details impact of regional and drive-cycle variations on degradation of a PHEV battery pack
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
a) Capacity Fade in Phoenix, comparison of air cooling vs no cooling for two drive cycles. (b) b) Capacity Fade in Phoenix and San Francisco, using GPS data. Air cooling can increase battery life by a factor of 1.5–6, 6, depending on regional climate and driving patterns, they found.
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