Hillhater
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Any faults, failures, breakages, niggles etc yet ?
What is the service recommendation for it .
What is the service recommendation for it .
Is there no lubricant in the transmission/differential ?.. It cannot last forever or not need a level check sometime .Warren said:Maintenance: Rotate the tires every 7,500 miles. Wipers as needed. Cabin air filter every 22,500 miles. Drain and refill coolant at 150,000 miles. Needless to say, not a big profit source for GM, or its dealers.
Hillhater said:In the video Warren linked, the GM tech guy said the choice of lead Aux battery was purely a cost thing.
Hillhater said:In the video Warren linked, the GM tech guy said the choice of lead Aux battery was purely a cost thing.
+ i doubt that lead is much use at -30 deg C is it ?
It may be better suited to being constantly "floated" at 12-14v ?
Or adding a small electric motor to a purely gas engine to start it, when push-starting the car was easier, cheaper and simpler.Chalo said:That's pretty pathetic. It might be slightly cheaper than a DC-DC converter, but it's heavier, higher maintenance, and thoroughly less satisfactory to live with. It would be like adding a small coal fuel system to a gasoline car to run a few of the accessories, if it were slightly cheaper that way.
Lead acid batteries are recycled far more effectively than lithium ion batteries. All the metals are recycled - compared to lithium ions, where none is.Chalo said:Cheapest way to do that-- sure, for the manufacturer, for one moment. But toting 40 pounds of battery for years to do a 3 pound battery's job is lame-- and that's before you add toxic metals, caustic liquids, risk of leakage or bursting, and short service life. When those things make it into the cost analysis, it's not actually cheaper in any way.
I'd say people who use lead acid batteries vs lithium ion batteries (all other things being equal) care more about the environment - and act on that. ICE car owners tend to recycle their car batteries - I have never met an ebike owner who did that.It is, however, symptomatic of car driver thinking. "Harm caused to someone else, or everything else, doesn't matter. What matters is that this seems easiest right now."
Chalo said:Whatever you say. At the end of the day, you're using power from a battery, to carry around another battery, so you can do, um...?