AFS Trinity claims a 150,000-mile useful life for its battery/ultracap system. What is this based on?
The claimed 150,000 miles useful life is based on ten months of extensive and continuous physical testing by America’s leading independent battery testing laboratory, Mobile Power Solutions of Beaverton, Oregon. This laboratory subjected AFS Trinity’s dual energy storage system of lithium ion batteries and ultracapacitors to a demanding duty cycle simulating an urban/highway driving cycle with strong and frequent high current demands. Such a driving cycle was meant to subject the batteries to the kind of strong and frequent loads that the energy storage system would be subjected to by an aggressive driver— think New York or Paris cabby or your teenager. The AFS Trinity system delivered more than 3,800 duty cycles before the batteries reached end-of-life. Each cycle represents a full charge and discharge. Assuming that each charge can deliver sufficient power to propel a vehicle for 40 miles, this represents 152,000 miles, which we rounded down to 150,000.
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