battery-management

A battery management system (BMS) is any electronic system that manages a rechargeable battery (cell or battery pack) by facilitating the safe usage and a long life of the battery in practical scenarios while monitoring and estimating its various states (such as state of health and state of charge), calculating secondary data, reporting that data, controlling its environment, authenticating or balancing it.
Protection circuit module (PCM) is a simpler alternative to BMS.
A battery pack built together with a BMS with an external communication data bus is a smart battery pack. A smart battery pack must be charged by a smart battery charger.

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    Limiting power?

    Noticed recently that the car seems to limit power when it gets to below 30%. Seems like it loses half the horses. Is this a built in battery saving precaution? I’d kind of understand why, as it saves battery, but if I’m 3 miles from home with 40 miles of range, I’d like to be able to use the...
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