Willie via EV wrote:
When I bought my 2011 Leaf, I expected the battery to last at least five
years and then find an after market battery market thriving. I was
disappointed to find that the Leaf had a two year (or less) battery.
Near ten years out, I'm astonished that there is still no after market
battery source.
It is sad, isn't it? EVs are becoming throw-away cars, like so many
other products in our consumer society.
There are many reasons why it's so hard to upgrade an automaker's EV's pack:
- Automakers worked hard to make batteries (and everything else)
difficult to replace.
- The batteries are all custom, so it's hard to get replacements to fit.
- Software needs to be hacked to get the car to accept a non-OEM
replacement.
- Fear of something going wrong; fires, injuries, lawsuits.
- No one wants to fix anything... just throw it away and buy a new one.
- Time and money. Given the above, someone would have to invest a great
deal of time and money into creating a replacement pack. It will be hard
to sell enough at a high enough price to get their investment back.
It may happen "eventually". But it hasn't yet for the Leaf. Even the
Prius, which has been around for 20 years and has millions of cars on
the road, replacement battery packs are a poor substitute for the originals.
Lee Hart
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Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
-- Leonard Cohen, from "Anthem"
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