Thread: Petrol V EV technolgy from America

Originally Posted by 300winmag

The guy I was talking too yesterday said he started replacing individual batteries but the taxi drivers would come back a week or so later demanding there money back because he’d done a shit repair job not realising another battery had shit itself. Now he replaces the whole pack, they squeal at the price and whack it on after pay.

No, it won't be a shit repair job but more likely one batt was on the tipping point and refreshing everything around it made it the weakest link - so it turned it's toes up virtually instantly. There's a guy in the UK that talked about this, he would do electric packs for the minicab drivers and they'd want the cheapest repair possible just replacing the failed batts. He would tell them that there were others on the way out, but no they just wanted the minimum done. Sure enough, next week back in to swap out two more and then a straggler a few weeks after that... Continuous fast charging though so those packs were getting punished.