Girl's Electric Car Needs New Battery but It's More Expensive Than Vehicle Itself - Then She Gets Even Worse News...The Siwinskis were told the battery pack was at the end of its life and needed to be replaced, and the bill was going to be $14,000...The dealer said it couldn’t even get a battery.
(www.westernjournal.com)
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It makes for a great 'beater project' if someone knows a little bit of electric engineering to restore the battery cells.
However, if it's fully EV, then that's a whole lot of bag of potatoes if it's too far gone as a dead weight. Still worthy as a in-process pipeline flipper project, but never as first line daily driver unless it was hybrid.
I saw a video of a guy who was told his ev needed a new battery and because it was so much $ he decided to take it apart and see if he could fix it. None of the cells were bad, just corroded bus bars and terminals. He polished it up and was good again
If you know what you're doing, you could probably source the needed cells from here and replace them yourself. https://jag35.com/
But it would be a very involved procedure.
From my experience working on hybrids, the way the batteries are constructed only allow two options: repair the charging system or replace the battery. They have all sorts of planned obsolescence chips in those things too. It's like a printer. If you know how to fix the part, you can, but the computer won't recognize it as a legitimate part.
I bought my wife a laser printer when she transitioned to a work at home position and she balked at the price compared to the inkjet printers.
Once I explained the laser printers are cheaper in the long term because the toner lasts a very long time and doesn't dry up like its more expensive ink counterpart, she got on board with the decision.
Worked out well for us, especially due to how much she printed.