One of the key steps in winterizing a scooter is to protect your battery from draining during its "rest" period. This can — and will — happen if you leave your battery sitting untended in your cold scooter over the winter, even if it's in a garage or shed. Read our review or go right to Amazon. Go to Motor Scooters Guide home page.
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Thank you for your support. Proudly powered by SBI! Is the brand BMS a good scooter? Battery life is short only months. Front suspension is clunky and bottoms out easily. After having stalling issues after 2, miles, my local shop removed the emissions canister, updated CDI and coil- problem solved. Additionally, batteries are one of the most expensive components of the scooter and overall cost increases accordingly. E-scooter battery packs are made of many individual battery cells.
More specifically, they are made of cells , a size classification for lithium ion Li-Ion batteries with 18 mm x 65 mm cylindrical dimensions. Li-Ion batteries have excellent energy density, the amount of energy stored per their physical weight. Li-ion actually refers to many battery chemistries that involve the lithium ion.
Here is a short list below:. Each of these battery chemistries represents a trade-off between safety, longevity, capacity, and current output. Fortunately, many quality electric scooters are using the INR battery chemistry — one of the safest chemistries. This battery gives high capacity and output current. The presence of manganese lowers the internal resistance of the battery, allowing high current output while maintaining low temperatures.
Consequently, this reduces the chances of thermal runaway and fire. Lead-acid is a very old battery chemistry that is commonly found in cars and some larger electric vehicles, like golf carts. Lead-acid batteries have the benefit of being inexpensive, but suffer from having very poor energy density, meaning that they weigh a lot compared to the amount of energy they store.
In comparison, Li-ion batteries have about 10X the energy density compared to lead-acid batteries. To build a battery pack with hundreds or thousands of watt hours of capacity, many individual Li-ion cells are assembled together into a brick-like structure.
The brick-like battery pack is monitored and regulated by an electronic circuit called a battery management system BMS , which controls the flow of electricity into and out of the battery.
Individual cells in the battery pack are connected in series end to end which sums their voltage. This is how its possible to have scooters with 36 V, 48 V, 52 V, 60 V, or even larger battery packs.
These individual strands many batteries in series are then connected in parallel to increase output current. By adjusting the number of cells in series and parallel, electric scooter manufacturers can increase output voltage or max current and amp hour capacity.
Changing the battery configuration will not increase total energy stored, but it effectively allows a battery to offer more range and lower voltage and vice versa. Each cell in a battery pack is generally operated from 3. Voltage sag is caused by several effects, including lithium-ion chemistry, temperature, and electrical resistance. It always results in non-linear behavior of the battery voltage.
The key point here is to always get the largest power pack you can afford as it will, quite simply, take you further and last longer. This performance comparison must always be made at a like for like temperature due to the variations in capacity between warm and cold temperatures. As explained above, smaller electric motorcycles should deliver a useful lifespan of at least five years, but it's important to bear in mind that battery capacity is continuously improving and the costs are falling.
Consequently, when a power pack reaches end of life it's very likely that any replacement will have a greater capacity and cost considerably less than the original unit. As a motorcycle is easier to park under cover than a car, it's always a good idea to avoid extremely cold temperatures where possible and to charge and store a power pack at 10c and above. Lithium-ion cells will perform at temperatures between c and 60c but as mentioned above, performance will suffer progressively below 10c and charging should be avoided at 5c or below.
When a Lithium-ion battery is in storage it will lose around 0. However, when connected to a vehicle the discharge rate will be far greater due to the residual current draw of the vehicle.
Under no circumstances allow a power pack at a low state of charge e. Spark Motos. Your Cart. Overview of Lithium-ion technology? Power Pack Structure Power packs contain dozens or even hundreds of small cells which are connected in series to achieve the correct pack voltage, and these packs are then connected in parallel to deliver the required current Amps.
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