T TonyWilliams Well-known member Joined Nov 14, 2012 Messages 4,131 Location San Diego county, California USA Oct 27, 2014 #21 Rav4EVoom said: pchilds said: No it reduces efficiency, the boost transformer is ~95% efficiency, 10kW in 9.5kWh out. 41.9kWh from the wall * .95 = 39.8kWh into the RAV4 * .85 = 33.8kWh into the battery. Click to expand... I misunderstood what you meant. Thanks for your clarification. So, the efficiency suffers with Transformer voltage boost. Click to expand... Efficiency suffers any time a transformer is used anywhere, as they are never 100% efficient.
Rav4EVoom said: pchilds said: No it reduces efficiency, the boost transformer is ~95% efficiency, 10kW in 9.5kWh out. 41.9kWh from the wall * .95 = 39.8kWh into the RAV4 * .85 = 33.8kWh into the battery. Click to expand... I misunderstood what you meant. Thanks for your clarification. So, the efficiency suffers with Transformer voltage boost. Click to expand... Efficiency suffers any time a transformer is used anywhere, as they are never 100% efficient.
