HV battery pack replacement questions

[Texas Dan]

As our Lightnings age, we need to be thinking about what we are going to do when the high voltage battery packs need to be replaced. I am probably going to hit the 100k mile warranty limit in less than three years. With a statistical failure rate for all EVs requiring pack replacement of 1% per year, the chances are that my pack will out live me by decades but what if I’m one of the unlucky ones that has a premature pack failure?

Would I try to hang on to the Lightning and replace the battery or just junk the Lightning and try to find something else? These questions are nothing new but what is new is that companies like Green tec are now offering replacement battery packs for our Lightnings. And there are already a lot of different options available to us, from replacing entire battery packs, to only replacing individual battery modules, to salvaging battery packs from wrecks.

Of course I won’t know what I would do until I’m forced to make a decision and I evaluate the choice available to me at that time. I would say though that I really like my Lightning and plan to be prepared to pay for a replacement battery pack if that appears to be the best choice for me at the time. How do you feel, do you feel the Lightning are worth keeping on road for as long as you can get and afford parts for them or are you prepared to abandon your Lightning once the pack starts to fail or significantly degrade?

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[TwentyTwentyThree]

$29k plus labor. Most of our trucks will be worth less than that in a year. This is insane.

I’d consider it for at/about $10k installed. Otherwise these trucks become parts bins, no different than high end luxury cars.

 

[Texas Dan]

$29k plus labor. Most of our trucks will be worth less than that in a year. This is insane.

I guess you have made your opinion clear. To counter, I would refer to the analogy of used aircraft. The value of used aircraft is very much related to how many hours on the aircraft since the last major engine overhaul with the plane reaching maximum value right after the engine overhaul and the plane being almost valueless with many hours on the engines.

i’m sure that the value of EVs will mature to point where the value will be highly dependent on age and condition of the battery pack.

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