Perhaps a 3rd party will make affordable replacements for the Leaf in the future, but not likely for the Spark since there aren't too many.
Are Spark batteries suffering degradation like Leaf though? A Spark really only needs to be usable for about 15 years, as that's about the typical lifetime of a vehicle.
I view both the Leaf and Spark as disposable vehicles, meaning when the battery is no longer useful the car only has salvage and scrap value. That's not really much different than any other vehicle though. If I owned a 15 year old Chevy Aveo and the engine died, I'd just scrap the thing.
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