There really isn't wide scale recycling yet for lithium batteries. But when pacs fail, it's usually only a few cells. Repair industry should flourish. Trade-in/swap-out for the cost of a pac repair.
It will be interesting to see how long a repaired battery pack is guaranteed.
Likely... All the way to the door.
Just imagine all the piles of these junkers when people opt to purchase a whole new car instead of spending 85% of that cost on just a battery.
That's a lot of crushed cars and lithium batteries piling up.
The entire pack and the labor. That's the way they are sold. The guarantee would be for the entire pack and the labor to install it, even though only a portion of it is new. I wasn't aware EV's had oil pumps and/or piston rings. Please ID the make and model of the EV you are referencing that has an oil pump and/or piston rings.
Aptera is saying their battery pack will be good for 200,000 miles.
One but they still My point was that you can expect repaired battery warranties to be very similar to the warranties you'd get when you have a major part of your internal combustion engine repaired. If somebody pulls your engine and replaces the water pump they don't warranty the rest of the engine. They warranty the work that they did. If you want a warranty on the entire item, you have to go to somebody who provides an entirely manufactured product like a crate engine. If I have a shop replace some piston rings that's different than getting a Jasper remanufactured engine
True, but if someone pulls the battery out and replaces it the entire battery is under warranty.
That's kind of what I was thinking too. They have already-repaired pacs ready to go, you trade yours in and "buy" a whole pac with a warranty on the whole thing.
Right, so that's more of a Jasper remanufactured mode. If you take your car in and the local shop repairs your pack then they're not going to warranty the entire pack. Just the repair. That's what I was talking about. And just like engines you'll be faced with the same cost difference.
I don't know that they're going to have packs on hand. I really think remanufactured packs are going to be very much like remanufactured engines with the same level of need, meaning it just doesn't make economic sense to keep them on hand. Because I think battery pack fire that requires repair a replacement is going to be as rare as an engine failure that requires replacement of the engine
I didn't mean necessarily having a stock at the repair site, that would be ludicrous for the number of different designs. Much like Jasper, order a reman in a day or two. Semantics.
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