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Tesla (TSLA) Batteries Found to Outperform Internal 5-Year Projections
2:47 PM ET, 07/15/2013 - Street Insider
Despite the Model S grabbing most of the attention for Tesla Motors (Nasdaq: TSLA), there's still some life left in the Roadster. Actually, event more than even the company expects, at least in the battery compartment.
Plug In America recently released a report highlighting the stellar performance of Tesla Roadster batteries. From a release over the weekend: Battery packs in Tesla Motors' Roadster electric cars will retain an average of 80- to 85-percent of capacity after 100,000 miles driven, according to a study published ... by Plug In America ... The finding, released here at the Teslive Tesla users conference, bests initial projections set by Tesla Motors in 2006 which suggested a 70-percent capacity retention after five years and 50,000 miles driven, said Tom Saxton, Plug In America's chief science officer.
Continuing: Plug In America has also launched battery-pack performance surveys of the 1997-2003 Toyota RAV4-EV and the new Tesla Model S. The RAV4-EV survey will document the 10-year experience of owners of these early electric vehicles ... It is premature to glean much about battery capacity for the Model S, which became available in mid-2012, but this research has already shown that survey participants are driving an average of more than 16,000 miles per year, well above the national average of 13,500 miles for conventional vehicles, Saxton reported.
2:47 PM ET, 07/15/2013 - Street Insider
Despite the Model S grabbing most of the attention for Tesla Motors (Nasdaq: TSLA), there's still some life left in the Roadster. Actually, event more than even the company expects, at least in the battery compartment.
Plug In America recently released a report highlighting the stellar performance of Tesla Roadster batteries. From a release over the weekend: Battery packs in Tesla Motors' Roadster electric cars will retain an average of 80- to 85-percent of capacity after 100,000 miles driven, according to a study published ... by Plug In America ... The finding, released here at the Teslive Tesla users conference, bests initial projections set by Tesla Motors in 2006 which suggested a 70-percent capacity retention after five years and 50,000 miles driven, said Tom Saxton, Plug In America's chief science officer.
Continuing: Plug In America has also launched battery-pack performance surveys of the 1997-2003 Toyota RAV4-EV and the new Tesla Model S. The RAV4-EV survey will document the 10-year experience of owners of these early electric vehicles ... It is premature to glean much about battery capacity for the Model S, which became available in mid-2012, but this research has already shown that survey participants are driving an average of more than 16,000 miles per year, well above the national average of 13,500 miles for conventional vehicles, Saxton reported.