Heck, years ago, kolmstead tried to sell his 8 bar '11 for $4500: http://mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=19967&p=454921&hilit=%244500#p454921. He got no takers but was unfortunately in a remote part of CA. Car got donated after a few months of no takers.Oilpan4 said:A used 2011 or 2012 with a weak battery can be had for less than $6,000.
Why do they need to barrow a car to test it?
Probably because it will be w/o its pack quite a bit of the time and the company will need it for testing and development. You can't expect a whole bunch of paid employees to be waiting around or adapting their work and product schedule to the whims of some non-employee.DaveinOlyWA said:badq45t said:There is a company that will be offering Leaf Replacement batteries with lots more range, up to 65 kwh too. Fenix Energy, they are going to be taking mine as a test mule, donating for 2 years and I will have to lease something in between, but should be well over 200 miles of range. WIll be about the same as the Nissan batteries but with liquid cooling they will last a good long time.
Why can't you drive the test mule?
Oilpan4 said:Yeah the $4,000 2011-2012 leafs with bad batteries was what originally got me looking into the nissan leaf.
But I decided to pay more and get one with a replaced battery.
cwerdna said:Heck, years ago, kolmstead tried to sell his 8 bar '11 for $4500: http://mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=19967&p=454921&hilit=%244500#p454921. He got no takers but was unfortunately in a remote part of CA. Car got donated after a few months of no takers.Oilpan4 said:A used 2011 or 2012 with a weak battery can be had for less than $6,000.
Why do they need to barrow a car to test it?
Probably because it will be w/o its pack quite a bit of the time and the company will need it for testing and development. You can't expect a whole bunch of paid employees to be waiting around or adapting their work and product schedule to the whims of some non-employee.DaveinOlyWA said:badq45t said:There is a company that will be offering Leaf Replacement batteries with lots more range, up to 65 kwh too. Fenix Energy, they are going to be taking mine as a test mule, donating for 2 years and I will have to lease something in between, but should be well over 200 miles of range. WIll be about the same as the Nissan batteries but with liquid cooling they will last a good long time.
Why can't you drive the test mule?
I could envision plenty of testing w/the car being driven, charged, discharged, DC FCed w/the employees wanting direct realtime access to instrumentation along w/the ability to abort the test or put out a fire, if needed. There are also potential liability issues.
If development were much further along, then sure, I'd expect beta testing by outsiders to be a possibility.
Post seems no longer there.mmmike said:Here is battery upgrade option to ponder! https://houston.craigslist.org/cto/6550198295.html
At your mention of this, I checked out their website. For us schlubs with 2012's, they MAY be able to put in a 30kwh battery but their initial plan is to replace like with like, i.e., 24kwh for me. Later LEAFs may benefit from greater upgradeability.badq45t said:There is a company that will be offering Leaf Replacement batteries with lots more range, up to 65 kwh too. Fenix Energy, they are going to be taking mine as a test mule, donating for 2 years and I will have to lease something in between, but should be well over 200 miles of range. WIll be about the same as the Nissan batteries but with liquid cooling they will last a good long time.
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