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I just listened to your explanation about how you choose your batteries. Well there are other old very reliable much more environment friendly batteries which are additional very hard to kill. They are not available in the US since they do not fit into the American business model — they last for ever they are not heavy, you could not just deep discharge them but just short out ….they are not that temperature sensitive like led-acid, which yes it it get frozen it could explode!
Actually the NiFe [Edison] battery was once produced in the US to. It uses KaOH as electrolyte. And if you look around you may could find old forklift with such battery, the are from the sixties of the past century. Once upon the time Tudor– the company which made led acid batteries– purchased the formidable competitor and stopped the production for ever in the US. Yes it was a formidable competitor the NiFe accumulator — developed in Sweden in the 18 hundreds — lastet for ever. I my childhood — now I am 80 –I had such accumulators for my radio sets, yes I am also one electrical engineer with a major in RF-Microwaves communication, received my masters [Dipl.Ing.] in Europe, behind the iron curtain. have two sons, software engineers –such a disappointment!I am German and living in California for the last thirty years still working as a consultant, and dreaming about to travel endlessly on the roads like you do. Please let me know if I did something wrong, Thank you in advance Alex
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