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EV Tyre: Guide for best efficiency and longer life

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Tyres are the most important part of any car, as they provide the right amount of traction, braking and stability to the car while moving at higher speeds. They also contribute to higher range and fuel efficiency. All of this depends on tread design, tyre material and tyre structure. Recently, there have been numerous complaints regarding tyre life in EV cars. But in reality, not all EVs have tyre life issues. Based on several practical examples, it has been observed that mostly cars with RWD or AWD have tyre issues. Cars with FWD are observed to have tyres lasting a very long time. Source: Galaxy Tyre Shop Is using EV tyres beneficial? Many of the EV cars are still supplied with normal tyres. So a question arises whether using EV tyres in EV cars really beneficial or not? Let's discuss a few benefits of using EV tyres. Weight: EV tyres are provided with reinforced sidewalls. This will help support the extra weight of heavy battery packs. Rolling Resistance: Special materials used ...

Spiritual approach for a healthy life

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A spiritual approach is belief in an inner voice of an all-powerful entity, usually known as God or Soul, that controls the nature and destiny of human beings. It shapes how individuals act toward what they believe is their life's purpose, their quest for life's meaning, and their sense of interdependence with the world. Qualities like love, honesty, patience, tolerance, compassion, calmness, faith, and hope are all products of spirituality. A spiritual approach to a healthy life includes the following fruitful steps: In this world, not all living things develop thoughts; only human beings can think and develop inner peace, which helps with their problems, anxiety, stress, and sickness. A healthy life needs balance among mental, physical, and emotional states. These fruits are major keys to living our lives with enthusiasm and happiness. Other small things, like sleep time, food and nutrition, our belief in God, and our surrounding environment, are also necessary for a be...

EV Day: Let's Pledge for a greener tomorrow

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Source: The Manthan School Pollution: It is the biggest culprit destroying our current environment. We also know that this is the only planet where we can survive with minimal amount of difficulties faced. So it becomes our duty to safeguard this planet from various negative sources destroying it. The main sector contributing most for environment destruction is the energy sector. We are heavily dependent on various energy sources, one of the main of it being electricity. Still in current time major source of electricity is Coal, which is causing an immense amount of pollution. One more contributor to this pollution is vehicles running on Petrol and Diesel fuels. We are in a way, damaging the only place available in the whole solar system for our comfortable living. So, on this EV day, let's pledge some things for something useful for our only place to live in solar system, i.e. Earth. Always throw waste products in a dustbin and don't spill them on the road or in open spaces. N...

Dual Balancing: Is it really the solution to all Tata's battery problems?

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Source: Circuit Digest Tata is being in the EV business since 2020. They are now having whole portfolio of EVs ranging from Tiago.ev to Sierra.ev. With to many EV's in the portfolio, TATA is also famous for the SOC drop issue in their EVs since 2020. Main question arises as to why they still can't solve this famous SOC drop issue? Recently they have released a update for the BMS to solve this issue lying in majority of their car batteries. We did several studies in numerous cars facing SOC drop. Well its time to share the results of our study. 1. Owner with soc drop from 28%. This owner of Punch.ev had soc drop in his battery from 28%. He used to get cell min voltage to be 3.33V when charged to 100%. So his cell minimum was never hitting higher soc when charged to 100%. 3.33V can be anywhere between 70-90%. So this minimum cell was acting as the limiting factor for whole battery to shutdown when battery percentage was hitting 28%. After update and doing many slow charging cycle...

Practical approach to SOH estimation of LifePo4 cells

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Source: Tursan PPS In current time most of the evs are equipped with LFP cells due to their inherent advantages over NMC cells. While their usage increases its also important to ensure that BMS is able to accurately manage those battery packs made from LFP cells. For doing that it is necessary that BMS is well aware about condition of each of the cells present in the battery pack, then only it can manage them over a longer period of time. In this article we are going to discuss about the technique which can be used for accurately judging the SOH of an lfp cell with least possible errors. Most of the manufacturers suggests for doing a charge from <10 to 100% for accurately judging the SOH, but is it the only way of judging SOH? No, we will discuss an alternative way which can calculate SOH with an error of 1 to 2% max. Voltage as a parameter for SOH estimation This might sound confusing as voltage is not even an accurate indicator for SOC then how can it accurately specify SOH of an ...

EV Today: Need more Range? Switch to Sports

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Source: Electric Car Scheme EVs are currently a totally new technology which is emerging in today’s time. As a result, many new owners and potential buyers has great interest in knowing about their functioning and how they perform under extreme tests. This is also leading to a huge confusion among potential EV buyers about what kw of battery will give a particular amount of range. This becomes even complex as its not constant always. Several factors affect the range which you can extract from a particular battery capacity. List of factors which can affect the range of an electric vehicle are listed below 1.        Tyre pressure 2.        Wind Resistance (Car Aerodynamics) 3.        Car Weight 4.        Tyre profile 5.        Driving pattern 6.        Battery Capacity 7.    ...

Does latest Tata cars have active balancer support?

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Source: Tata Motors We all know that earlier versions of tata cars only had passive balancers which was causing issue with battery balancing over a longer run. Because of this few of the battery packs were also required to be balanced externally in order to bring them back to operational conditions. Since a very long time it was being believed that Tata EV cars are only using passive balancers for balancing their battery packs. But recent studies done by us has revealed results of possibility of presence of Active Balancers in recent cars. Passive Balancer: It is a kind of balancer which only balances all the cells of the battery pack when it is charged all the way up to 100% and having a voltage delta. Active Balancer: This balancer has the capability to balance the cells of the battery pack whenever it finds voltage delta between the cells of the battery pack. Hence, this can prove to be better option and convenient too for having a balanced battery pack with minimal issues. Fo...