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Originally Posted by sheepdog 44
I find it disappointing that hybrid car batteries are still so expensive. They're at over $1,000 a kwh, when lithium cells can be had for half that. For the same price as a new pack from Toyota, you could get about 5kwh of lithium cells.
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But when you are buying a Prius battery pack you are not just buying the cells, you are buying all of the plugs (refurbished have upgraded parts) and other electronics that are in there, you are also paying for the labor to have a skilled person pull the metal case apart, trouble shoot and remove and replace the guts then test it all.