I have two Leaf enclosures in my yard to experiment with and also bought a new battery for installation in the Leaf of anyone interested. Cor.
> On May 18, 2017, at 5:28 PM, Willie via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 05/18/2017 09:02 AM, Peri Hartman via EV wrote: >> With all the used Leafs on and coming on the market, I see a potential >> retrofit market available to someone entrepreneurial. These cars have >> relatively low mileage, perhaps as low as 20K miles, and are hardly worn >> out other than the battery. > > When I bought my new Leaf in 2011, I expected to drive it 5-10 years, then be > able to replace the battery with a cheaper, bigger, better one. I can hardly > tell you how excited I was was to have a reliable, trouble free factory EV! > I could work with 75+ miles of range but not much less. It turned out, my > Leaf had a two year battery and Nissan convinced me to buy a Tesla. Here we > are 6 years into Leaf production and there seem to be no replacement > batteries in the pipeline. I'm not sure what price point is necessary to > make Leaf replacement batteries viable. But, I would guess no more than $5k > for a 40+kwh that is far more reliable than the OEM battery. It will > probably take someone with both talent and luck to make such an offering. > But, I see it as possible and do hope it happens. > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
