You might try calling Romeo Power in Southern Ca. They are a smallish, up and coming advanced Lithium battery manufacturer that is preparing to go public this month with a SPAC reverse merger deal. They may be able to build a replacement Leaf battery for the after market rebuild/salvage market. They seem to be innovative enuf to potentially be interested in creating a line of business out of it- maybe they just need some leadership or evangelist to put them on track....
Glenn B. Sent from my iPad > On Dec 13, 2020, at 12:13 PM, Peri Hartman via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Could it be done for that price and size ? Same form factor and not too much > more weight ? > > Considering we're talking about a market of, say, 50,000 > https://insideevs.com/news/347565/nissan-leaf-sales-outlook-us-2019/ > that would be a relatively small market. If the manufacturer made $500 profit > per battery, that would be $25M profit before taxes. R&D + manufacturing > staff would eat up a good chunk of that. I have no idea what it would cost to > setup manufacturing and buy raw materials. > > But if it could be done, I'd probably buy one. I think it would directly > translate to an increase in the sales value, if I didn't end up keeping it > very long. And it would make it a lot more useful that it is now (about 30 > miles range on a full charge in winter). In fact, just an inexpensive 30kwh > pack with thermal management would be sufficient. > > Peri > > << Annoyed by leaf blowers ? https://quietcleanseattle.org/ >> > >> >> 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) > _______________________________________________ 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)
