On 09/22/2014 05:41 AM, Matthew Parkhouse via EV wrote:
Hello All
Has anyone had any experience with ordering lithium battery packs from China?
If so, how is the transaction at our port cities. Apparently, these companies
only ship to our ports.
I bought a batch of ThunderSkys from Evergreen in Hong Kong about 2008.
Wired about $30k to them. That was a bit uncomfortable. But the deal
went smoothly. I have not heard of anyone being burned importing
cells. I drove to Houston to pick them up from an importing agent. The
duty plus fees were about $1k additional. The importing agent was
willing to forward them by common carrier but I am only a few hours from
Houston. What was the name of the company that gave some customers some
grief a while back? EV Components? I bought some cells from them
without incident but I believe some other customers had some trouble.
From the information I have seen, I have to conclude importing is safer
but more tedious. A California company (Balaqon? Something like that)
is now selling ThunderSkys domestically. I've also bought some cells from
http://evsource.com/
in Utah with good results.
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