Prius Battery Replacement (GenII) Like you've never seen - NEW Cylindrical Cells

Must be a regional thing, we pay considerably less than that for OE Prius batteries.

 

I got stuck to 220V once and lived to tell about it, and to know better than to touch fire ever again. So, how much for one all done and ready to install? If you do that of course.
Thanks.

 

after Nissan screwed over their original early adopters by raising the $5,000 replacement pack to $8000 .... too bad your people can't make up batches for those poor slobs - stuck with cars now, that can barely do a maximum range of 40 freeway miles, in many instances.
This Nissan LEAF Already Lost More Than Half Of Its Battery Capacity: Video
If that wasn't bad enough for loyal owners - Nissan gave no warning, to the 1,000's who were trying to stretch their lousy packs as far as they can.
Nissan Quietly Increased The Price of Its LEAF Battery Replacement. What now? | Transport Evolved
Thank you very much Nissan - for the bad taste in owners' mouths.
Anyway, this could be a big opportunity for aftermarket pack builders for those people that got the shaft from Nissan. At $8,000? - you could pick up a used leaf for less than that around here nowadays. Maybe Nissan thinks they're going to drive owners into a new Leaf. Haha!
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He doesn’t do that, however you might find a mechanic in your area that does.

 

The locked-down nature of the Leaf is pretty annoying; I like my Leaf but know it is a throw-away car; once the battery dies, it isn't worth it to replace it. The environmental impact of throwing away the whole car probably outweights any environmental benefit of driving it in the first place (in NZ, most electricity is renewable (hydro + geothermal mainly, some wind turbines)). Interestingly, I am going to be driving my Leaf to get a cheap failed Prius battery pack today!

Regarding the Leaf BMS, I haven't got round to examining the battery pack (or at least opening the access panels) yet, as it is my daily driver. I am wanting to experiment on it once I finish my Prius 'projects'; the fact Nissan treats it like an iPhone is pretty annoying. I know that even replacing the battery pack requires a trip to the Nissan dealer to 'pair' the new battery to the car. Which is annoying.

Is anyone aware if there is any 'logic' between the BMS sensors (voltage, current, temp, etc) and the actual cells / blocks? If not, would it be possible to replace all the cell packs with brand new ones? (I guess the 'bars' on the gauge would not reset but that doesn't really matter).

Regarding the new cylindrical cell packs........
-> As you import these from overseas (presumably China), is there any possibility that you could get these sent direct from China -> NZ? As I would like to get a set but I can imagine the cost from China -> US -> NZ would be prohibitive.
-> Do you know, off-hand, if these might be used to fix a Gen 1 Honda Insight battery pack? I have one with a dead hybrid system (one good thing is that they still work with the hybrid system broken); the previous owner replaced the original pack with a brand new Honda pack, then sold it to me 2 years later. The car worked fine for 100 miles then the hybrid system packed in. I have no ill-feeling towards that owner as the car is mint otherwise, and it uses the same packs as the NWH10 Prius which are known to be 'experimental' at best!

Please PM me if it may be possible to get these packs into NZ. For what it is worth, I will have two spare Prius packs by the end of today, and have some technical knowledge (electronics, computers, mechanics as a hobby, and medicine as a day job). In NZ, there have been many problems with 'reconditioned' packs; there was a company doing recon batteries for NWH10 Priuses, with mix-and-match cells sellotaped together (not even soldered) that got shut down. Other than the dealer, there are no trusted options for replacement packs. So it might be possible to set up an operation here...

 

it's not the voltage that kills you it's the amps aka current..


also VDC voltage is much safer then say VAC

 

how much would it cost for 40 modules. 300 volt system (chevy tahoe)

it uses the same cells panasonic cells as toyota does..

 

Hi folks,

I'm a 2005 Prius owner and she died with a dead battery a few days ago.

I've read the whole 28 pages (excluding those argue part in first few pages). I'm under debate whether I'd want to have your brand new battery or a refurb used pack. I'm tight on budget, and I need the car running in a week or two, and I have never worked with car fixing except for replacing the light bulbs. I'm a software engineer and I occasionally do some simple DIY stuff, like assembling / fixing servers etc.

If I'm gonna go refurb, that's $1600 including installation and 5yr warranty. If I'm in this way I'm paying $1600 for battery only, and then a full weekend to put those stuff in by myself due to short of budget.

If you are on my shoes, which way would you go? Do you think an almost zero experienced person can properly assemble this without electrocuted / hurt one self?

Also 2k1 -- do you have any stock for Gen2 battery that you can ship right away? How long would it take to arrive my door?

Thanks

 

I'm hoping the Dorman reman that came with this 05 keeps churning along but kinda sold on your replacement already.

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Thanks. I'm planning to do it myself before I change my mind. I'm gonna pick up some hand tools from HomeDepot. A 3/8 ftlb and a 1/4 inlb torque wrench, a few mm sockets, a power drill (which works with sockets), what else should I get as well? Any place I can find a list of tools needed? A quick google didn't get me a good result.

UPS ground asks 3 days so should arrive by 4/15. I'm planning to sacrifice 2 weekdays for the installation. Hopefully I'll have a good end.

 

Have you contacted all your of NJ dealers yet? There are probably several who sell the genuine battery for $1600ish. Add another $600 if you want them to install it and include a nice 3 year Toyota warranty.

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