In a place that repairs and fixes batteries. Not sure what answer you're expecting.
When are you going fully electric?
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In a place that repairs and fixes batteries. Not sure what answer you're expecting.
Whoosh, people do the same with ICE vehicles so what is the problem. Buy a new car, battery, secondhand battery or part of a battery compare that to buying a new engine, second hand engine, parts of an engine.
To be fair there won't be the large number of second batteries yet compared to ICE engines.
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there are a load on ebay as well.... i cant check now but iirc an ipace battery is around £8500.
not cheap by any stretch but neither would an engine for a car with similar marque to my EV
and again that is assuming complete failure. in truth, because my ability at car maintenance does not go much beyond checking tyres and fluids a complete replacement battery WILL mean i sell the car.
I would not even entertain doing it myself and hourly rates at garages are mental.................. but again, that would also be the case i suspect if my (fictional) Maserati ICE car had a spectacular failure as well.
not cheap by any stretch but neither would an engine for a car with similar marque to my EV
and again that is assuming complete failure. in truth, because my ability at car maintenance does not go much beyond checking tyres and fluids a complete replacement battery WILL mean i sell the car.
I would not even entertain doing it myself and hourly rates at garages are mental.................. but again, that would also be the case i suspect if my (fictional) Maserati ICE car had a spectacular failure as well.
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The anti EV's just don't see the similarities, just the fact it's an EV.
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eBay, brilliant, good luck finding someone who will actually fit that. Swapping engines is bad enough.
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I would assume a battery is just plug and play isn't it?
Find one right now. People make out it’s a normal job.
Earlier it was really easy to fix a battery pack ?
Do you mean the battery cell module or pack when you say a battery is plug and play ?
Same with Cleevley and the leaf upgrade. He can’t get batteries
I have an EV donut. Where is yours?
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Have you asked about shipping and fitting yet ?
Not really sustainable either. Rely on a crashed car to replace a broken battery with a second hand one with unknown history
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Not really. More that some people seem to think that EVs have solved inherent ICE issues and then come out with stuff like 'all you need to do to get the range and performance back to how it was when it was new is fit a new battery'.
That isn't a Haynes one spanner level of job, nor is it a cheap one. It's at least on par with replacing an engine in an ICE car. What do you think that does to it's performance and economy?
Talking in general terms, where can I get an EV donut then?
There’s one in every mirror
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amazing. Link to repurpose batteries as a source for a car battery when the whole pretence of their business is batteries no longer fit for automotive use!!
Can’t make this up.
Can’t make this up.
If a battery is just bolt on and plug in surely that is easier than all the stuff needed to be done on an ICE vehicle. A module replacement would take longer depending on how the pack was designed obviously. Sarcasm really goes over people's heads sometimes
You can take the same risk with a secondhand engine. Again no real difference between them