New here. Wife owns car. Has about 90,000+ miles on it...2011. How long will the batteries last on this car? How much is it going to cost to replace them? By the way...I have been running an XL spreadsheet on the mileage ever since new. When she really tries, she gets 60 to 62 MPG...when I drive it....around 50MPG. I have every gas receipt since new....so I can't fake it. Thanks
A remanufactured battery pack is about $1200. The dealer sells them for about $4000 and you can get a used one on eBay for about $400. I'd say that you can expect to get about 200,000+ miles out of a G3 traction battery. My guestimate. YMMV
why do you find it strange? do you have any battery operated device, in which someone can tell you how long the battery will last? as far as cost, you can buy a salvage unit, a rebuilt unit, a new unit, and all three vary in pricing, just like most anything you buy, depends on where you shop. fwiw, the warranty on the battery in your state is 8/100.
Each Generation of Prius has a different (ideally better) battery than the generation before it. To the best of my knowledge about 20% of the Gen 1 (2001 to 2003) batteries have died. Gen 2 batteries (2004 to 2009) only have about 5% failure rate. The failure rate for Gen 3 batteries is not yet statistically significant. If you ask again in 5 years we will know more. In 10 years we should have a strong opinion.
We just replaced both batteries in our 2002 Gen 1 with 140,000 miles. We are one of the unlucky 20%. My question is how can any older Prius with over 100,000 miles have any resale value with an appx $3,000 battery bill looming ahead? Yet they do. I've seen them listed this week for sale for up to $3,900. We also have a 2008 Prius with 85,000 miles. I'm thinking we should sell it before it hits 100,000 miles.
the percentage has gone up since 2015. i wouldn't say you are unlucky, i would say the odds are against not having a big expense with any 16 year old car. depending on what you use the 2008 for, selling it might be a good idea. it could go a couple hundred thousand or crap out tomorrow. what cars are listed for, and what they sell for are sometimes two very different things. all you can do is put them up for sale and see what you get for offers. personally, i don't like driving older cars. we will replace my wife's 2013 hycam next summer at 6 years and 60,000 miles. you get a pretty good return at that age, and serious discounts off of new ones. if we can pluck a 2018 hycam for 22k, and get 12k for ours, that's 10k to own it for 6 years, or $1,600./yr or $135./mo.
Lets pretend Toyota learned nothing from the Gen 1 Prius, (they did) using your data I would sell it before 2024. Batteries are more time based than mileage based. (You list no location, so no one can advise you on your warranty)
