The amount of heat needing to be generated can then be calculated based on the average temp over a longer period of time, and those batteries I don't imagine have to be "warm" exactly.
The amount of heat needing to be generated can then be calculated based on the average temp over a longer period of time, and those batteries I don't imagine have to be "warm" exactly.
Any charging around or below freezing causes pretty quick destruction of the cells as the chemistry switches to a more favorable destructive one way electroplating process instead of the desirable (and reversible) ion exchange process.
A common engineering solution to this has started to be temperature dependent shunts that route charging energy to heating pads around the battery until the battery temp gets above a certain safe point.
It adds complexity, cost, and adds several undesirable failure mode however, and Lithium battery cost is already a major factor in these systems, so if you’re in a situation where you can’t reliably temperature control your batteries (cold climate, non-conditioned battery space), lead acid is still a very viable and often desirable chemistry instead.
Round trip efficiency isn’t great with them, and you have to way over provision to get good cell lifespan, but it works.
It's good practice to snake a water pipe around every lithium cell anyway in big packs, because otherwise one bad cell can self-heat to the point of catching fire, even while other nearby cells are cold. The flowing water means the bad cell can't get to the point of fire.
Unless you live in the desert, having the batteries too hot isn't as big of an issue as freezing them.