Reply to post: "Volvo manufacture hybrid trucks and busses that use Li Ion batteries. "

As you head off to space with Li-ion batts, don't forget to inject that liquefied gas into them

John Smith 19 Gold badge
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"Volvo manufacture hybrid trucks and busses that use Li Ion batteries. "

Given the American Mid West can reach those sort of temperatures it seems likely Sweden could as well.

I take your point I'd also expect most places to keep that sort of stuff in a shed, possibly heated but at least insulated.

I'm not so sure about buses. I could see this as being quite handy if you don't have garage parking or if you find yourself staying out all night somewhere and worried it won't start, or hold charge in the morning.

TBH my instinct is the fact it stops working as an electrolyte if it gets too hot, shutting down thermal runaway (and hence those Li battery fires that unfortunate headlines from time to time) is the big feature for this tech. Provided the internal pressure is not too high of course. People regularly handle 6 atm pressure vessels.

Beer because that's what a lot of those pressure vessels contain.

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