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Ryland · 05-06-2009, 02:39 AM

It would be really nice to know more about these as everyone claims "great for electric vehicles" but unless you know the discharge rate they can handle, the cut off of the BMS and all those other specs it's hard to tell and even with that there is no saying if they are going to turn out to be any good, for example FoxPower has been around for years and I've read a number of forums where people said their batteries failed right away, so I figure if they are still around they must have gotten better, right? a few months back a friend of mine spends $1000 for a FoxPower battery for his electric bike, right out of the box it's not charging right, a hand full of phone calls later he gets a response back form them, sends the battery back, gets a new replacement in the mail, it fails, sends it back again, gets a whole new battery and at this point has spent another $100 or so on shipping batteries back and this is dealing with a company that is talking up their batteries being in EV's in big auto shows, this is not dealing with someone over seas that is not returning phone calls about bad batteries.
So what was your guess on a price for these again?

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