Check out evrides LLC .com in Portland, and valley auto specialists in Salem. They ARE doing drop in packs from wrecked leafs. They will even swap in higher kWh of packs.
I disagree with some ppl’s assessment about short longevity. ARSC is not LG Chem, but as I said, many of these packs will get to 10 years before they’re unuseable. Sincerely, Bob Bath Note: any misspellings of the contents of this message are due to 55 y.o. vision, hyperactive spell check changing what I typed, or fat fingering— not cluelessness. > On Dec 13, 2020, at 11:13 AM, Willie via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 12/13/20 12:52 PM, (-Phil-) via EV wrote: >> >> Such a shame, every other aspect of the Leaf was so well done. So many >> Leafs have been scrapped now that are otherwise good cars just having >> useless packs. > > 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. > > I rid myself of my Leaf SOLELY because of the crappy battery. OTOH, it > pushed me into an early Tesla which was certainly a good move. > > >> It's sad that there isn't any similar effort put into Leafs to re-use the >> components or put new packs in. There are a lot of them out there! > > That is certainly the case. Can anyone explain why no one is supplying > ~50kwh batteries to "drop in" old Leafs at a cost of $5k-$7k? > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
