Sportstick
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- 2015 BMW 228i MSport, 2024 BMW X3 30i SDrive MSport, 2025 Porsche Macan
Purely for thermal runaway concerns and with a home charger and not doing road trips, range is unimportant to me. I could live with a 100-200 mile battery with charging in my garage from my solar panels. My battery engineer prior colleague back in Michigan advised to avoid NCM/NMA and shared some test videos for failure mode analysis. Just a poof of white smoke for LFP versus what we've all seen for Lithium Ion that becomes essentially unextinguishable as it propogates its own oxygen. LFP doesn't do that. I've seen the relative occurrence studies, as probably did some shipping companies with lost boats and State Farm before they made this decision. I really like my current car and our new home and I just am not comfortable with the risk. https://www.carscoops.com/2024/10/s...rom-its-parking-decks-citing-safety-concerns/I'm curious, why the restriction to LPF? Because right now, most vehicles (not just Rivian) that use LPF battery chemistry tend to have smaller range (as the chemistry has a lower energy density compared to other battery chemistries)...
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