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Re:Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades by theshrike79 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @05:05PM (#26684731)
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.

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Re:Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades by VBprogrammer on Sunday April 04, 2021 @02:47AM (#26687427)
> 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.

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