Battery Storage Temps

[MattB]

I’ve seen a few posts about battery care and figured I start another thread specifically about temperatures that we store our bikes/batteries. Summer temps in our garages can get extremely hot! Heat is one of the worst enemies of lithium based batteries. Combine high temps with a fully charged battery and your battery life is going to be in the toilet.
I’m not sure what the solution to this problem is beyond bringing our bikes into a climate controlled environment.

Where are you guys storing your bikes and what are the summer temps in your storage area?

Here is a great article on Lithium Ion batteries. About 1/2 way down they talk about storage temps and storage capacity.

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries

 

[OneLapper]

My Alta is in the living room. During the winter I'll move it to the basement or the hallway. It was kinda neat to "ride" my new motorcycle inside the house!

 

[rayivers]

My garage varies from 50F to 75F. In the winter I heat my Zero battery to 80F if possible, it makes a real difference in both performance and range. I think internal overheating during hard use is the real enemy, but Alta seems to have that covered.