Re:Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades
by VBprogrammer on Saturday April 03, 2021 @04:02PM
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Time will tell but I've got my fingers crossed that in 15 years time any backstreet garage will exchange your battery on a car of that age for a cost proportionate to the fact that you could reasonably expect another 10 years of trouble free motoring. With luck with a 50% increase on its original capacity.
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Re:Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades
by theshrike79 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @05:05PM
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They already do. A battery swap/refresh/replacement for a Leaf is 5-10k€ over here, depending on how bad shape the original is and whether you want a larger battery in there.
It's kinda sorta doable by yourself, but it's a HVDC circuit so you _really_ need to know what you're doing.
Actual brand-name shops are slowly able to replace individual failed cell packs instead of just swapping the whole battery.
The big problem is that batteries aren't really failing and because of that the manufacturers don't really have a process in place for replacements, each operation is a custom job.
Re:Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades
by VBprogrammer on Sunday April 04, 2021 @02:47AM
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> Leaf is 5-10k€
Those are pretty wide error bars, last time I looked at used Leaf's they were selling for somewhere in that range. Admittedly first gen leafs with the 24KWh battery.