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Originally Posted by freebeard
Jehu Garcia bought 'dead' laptop batteries, harvested the 18650 cells and found maybe 60% of them viable.
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Last I saw on his videos, he had to invest a lot of labor and time to test, charge and discharge, assemble, solder, etc.
I'm a bit too lazy for that
The Toyota RAV4's in Canada are quite rare. I've yet to see the EV version outside of British Columbia. The one or two I saw on Kijiji were commanding a premium price - over $5K at the time, with >150K miles.
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If it needs batteries Kia Soul EV batteries will drive a Tesla motors, but has higher energy density. Batteries will only get better.
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I've not seen the KIA EV in Canada so far. None in wrecker listings or auctions, Kijiji ... maybe eventually.
Heck, I can't seem to win an ebay auction on Leaf parts - motor, battery, charger, etc