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A comment on Residual Value: Electric Batteries vs. Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles. Parent comment

Re:Residual Value: Electric Batteries vs. Internal Combustio... by daveguy on Monday March 27, 2017 @10:18AM (#13967880)
a) surprise. Those "lightly used" cells aren't lightly used. Have you ever bought them? Cheap eBay cells are garbage.
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Re:Residual Value: Electric Batteries vs. Internal Combustio... by semi-extrinsic on Monday March 27, 2017 @01:38PM (#13969909)
Sure, I've bought a few, and my experience is "used LG/Panasonic/etc 18650s" are about as good as "new Ultrafire/TrustFire/etc. 18650s"
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