Nissan Leaf battery upgrade

If you cannot see the similarities between what I checked and the other thread all hope is lost, a car is fine as long as it barely does 40 km on battery, complete useless if it does just as much on electric and also has an internal combustion engine, here is one for you, look up, it says " Electric Vehicles & Hybrids" .

funny.

I just commented on how the same car, slightly different circumstances is either buy or sell and some how I touched a nerve, maybe I fail to see the subtle difference between a guy who slowly used his car down to at best a 40km car in ideal weather to sell it, and recommending a car for a young woman who knows next to nothing, now that I typed it, still cannot see the difference,

That is your choice, I fail to see how 40 km is good but 41 km is bad because it used an 19th century technology to do 1 km , its splitting hairs I have done nearly 200 km this week, last night coming home from tesco, the engine switched on, few kms that all, I switch units on the car from km per litre, to litres per 100 km, to know how much I used.

0.02 l/100 km, in old speak 14,124 mpg imperial.

The problem is people do go far, I have no need for 2 cars, I have no wish to be stuck charging when I do not want to be, I have used my brain and whats available, practical, and safe, at no great purchase price or inconvenience.

Tongue in cheek that speaks volumes, and for a serious matter like a young woman driving it its perfectly ok. validate or not validate, I do not care, I will continue to push for a balance view, not drinking the EV kool aid .

I did not draw any conclusion or make any, I just pointed out the difference in threads, you seemed to have gotten your frilly underwear in a knot,

You can drive anything you want, its your choice.

Its a crap car that guy should sell, maybe get a wheelchair user to buy it, as per thread standard.

The end.

Performance is fantastic when you reach 40.01 km,

So they took their €5k car, spent €11k on it. And now it is worth €9k at best.

The only logical explanation. I'm afraid the owner doesn't see it like that though, they are under the illusion they have saved €20k 🙄

A degraded Leaf 24 battery is worth about €1k. For the €16k that they spent (incl. the value of their own car), they could have bought a Kona 64 with a few thousand change or almost an eNiro 64 (and dare I say it just a touch short of a Tesla) both with significantly more range than this upgraded Leaf (as these cars have a far more efficient drive train and use battery conditioning). And then they would have had a car that is still worth €16k. Not a €5k car with a battery upgrade making it worth just a few grand more than that

Only if you have sentimental value in your particular older Leaf, should you consider a battery upgrade at commercial cost. You are basically pissing away money.

Now of course if you can DIY at a fraction of the cost, by all means go ahead and do it. Dala from Finland has done this many times and has shared all his knowledge on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/c/DalasEVRepair/videos

Have a look in the EV bargains thread. A 64kWh Kona was recently in there with an asking price of just 11k. High mileage, but still. Several of them have been posted in there for around the €15k asking price. We've seen the 64kWh eNiro in there for €17k in the last few weeks.

Leaf battery, see eBay. Or just deduct from the fact that you can pick up a fully working Nissan Leaf with valid NCT from about €2k (see DoneDeal)

A commercial 5kWh LiFePO4 battery is about €1500 now. Even when prices were much higher and there was COVID scarcity, they were never over €2500, let alone €5k. Or you can buy a complete self assembly 15kWh pack for €2500 incl. case, all cabling, fuse, BMS, etc.

And you have to be very careful and know what you are doing if you use a lithium ion battery like from a Nissan Leaf to power your home. Firstly, the battery can NOT go inside the house. Secondly, you have to have an excellent BMS solution in place

Anyone interested in this should start by watching all Dala's YT videos on it.