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I’m about to fit a 62kw in the wife’s leaf
Got 150k miles before the 30 has gone down to 80m range which isn’t enough for her commute
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I was going to say that but went with the V8 quip.
Breakers are often pretty handy with the spanners. Presume they've already "dropped" the battery out of the donor vehicle?
we can ship if the sender fills in a DGN. Dangerous Goods Notification.
We can provide an example.
exactly my opinion . The future of EV's are an unknown. Virtually all my cars ( last one excepted) have been over 10 years old. But I can see how my son is always getting into calculations with the one he uses. Simple things like dropping of at airport needs careful.planning.
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I think people should stop buying EV's personally, just buy and keep fossil fueled vehicles on the road for the time being, until synthetic or hydrogen fuels are developed and available nationally .
The government can't force people to buy EV's, they can try to ban the sales of diesel/petrol vehicles, but the public transport system would just collapse under the load.
Lets' face it, most people never buy a new diesel/petrol car because of the cost, how do the idiots in government expect most of the workforce to buy EV to travel to work every few years?
And then there's the cost of relaying all the national grid power lines buried under the ground/streets when the power draw (EV's charging at night) exceeds the underground cable carrying capacity, causing cable fires/shorts....
Most underground cables are probably getting towards a 100+ years old now.......
Then there's the "Tip Hazards" of all the charging cables laying over the pavements....
The government can't force people to buy EV's, they can try to ban the sales of diesel/petrol vehicles, but the public transport system would just collapse under the load.
Lets' face it, most people never buy a new diesel/petrol car because of the cost, how do the idiots in government expect most of the workforce to buy EV to travel to work every few years?
And then there's the cost of relaying all the national grid power lines buried under the ground/streets when the power draw (EV's charging at night) exceeds the underground cable carrying capacity, causing cable fires/shorts....
Most underground cables are probably getting towards a 100+ years old now.......
Then there's the "Tip Hazards" of all the charging cables laying over the pavements....
I’ve not been in a breakers for years – and I’ve not seen too many “pretty handy with the spanners”, but I have seen an awful lot up and down the country who are artistes with the gas axe and FBHs!
I’ve not trust any of them to fit anything to a vehicle I own.
But end of life would include the battery, too.
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If they don't have an ADR Certificate, and hire an ADR compliant van with all the appropriate safety equipment, and use an appropriate overpack, then it's a fairly big legal no-no.
To prempt certain "common sense" sentiments that tend to come up regarding this stuff (and not directed at Mark):
1) Sure, if it all goes fine then they would "get away with it"...
2) But, if they had some kind of accident or incident, then they can add a 2 year custodial sentence and an unlimited fine to their list of problems.
3) It's not "just a battery" in any sense that the batteries we deal with every day are. A 24kWh battery has stored energy equivalent to ~20kg of TNT, and the energy released by complete thermal runaway could equal upto another 4kg of TNT...
4) TNT is a good comparator, as it's the immediacy of the energy release especially in terms of electrical discharge that's the problem much like with explosions... Neither TNT or Lithium Batteries are anywhere near as energy dense as petrol or diesel, but those burn slowly in an accident rather than releasing all their energy at once.
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Sorry, I was thinking off vehicle - even a used an abused 24kWh leaf pack will be more than up to powering a house for many more years as solar storage.
Most EV batteries are mounted in metal or steel-reinforced plastic boxes.
E.G. this 14kWh Range Rover Hybrid battery is in a cast aluminium tub that has channels for glycol temperature control, and with a sealed-on pressed steel lid:
It is bolted directly under the floor, in the same way as a petrol tank. The battery management circuits ( BMS ) which protect against overtemperature, over- and under-voltage, and balance the cells are inside, and contactors ensure that the output is not "live" except when driving. Most packs also have a pyro-fuse triggered by the airbag circuits.
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One of the models had the battery inside, the manual handling assister was a complicated affair as it had to pivot in through the tailgate aperture, luckily it was all pneumatic so I could leave any problems to the fitters
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the cost of owning an ev is expensive for a pile of scrap 10 years later ( the shell of the car )
you wont be able to afford an ev so public transport is all that will be left
what jobs as most are being funneled abroad
as goes for built for the future bradford just had an opertunity to do so by bringing back the old tramline system as we still have the old lines in the ground and also the lamposts there still there in most areas
no future of this has been planned when it should have been
cars have been excluded from the town center whilst the shoppers are forced to walk further away from the public transport
to me battery isnt good enough yet no matter what they want to say
so what they will do is equal petrol and diesel to the cost of buying an ev
ev charging will be vat added and taxed as someone has to pay for the stuff that is missing from the petrol and diesel market
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so this pyro fuse will not be in play when transporting on a pallet.
Well, if the car that the "new" battery came out of was in a shunt, the pyro fuse may well have blown. I don't know if the fuses are available to the common man, and even if they are, many "EV-qualified" garages will not open the battery box. At one time all internal battery work for Nissan meant return to the factory in Sunderland. Then the airbag ECU may have told the "Battery ECU" what happened, so you need the Dealer-only reset code.....
We had a company shipping an ejector seat from Turkey recently. I asked if the firing cartridges and rocket tubes had been removed. They didn't know what I was talking about. I asked for a few piccies - and no they were still on the seat
I wonder if the one in the CCF hut at school back in the 80's was similarly equipped . . ?We had a company shipping an ejector seat from Turkey recently. I asked if the firing cartridges and rocket tubes had been removed. They didn't know what I was talking about. I asked for a few piccies - and no they were still on the seat
There is a garage that specialises in repairing leaf batteries down London way they have plenty of bids on YouTube, there are known fail points because of the way the battery overheats, much cheaper than replacing
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That could have been exciting for some trucker.We had a company shipping an ejector seat from Turkey recently. I asked if the firing cartridges and rocket tubes had been removed. They didn't know what I was talking about. I asked for a few piccies - and no they were still on the seat
