Battery cost ?
Created July 20, 2006, at 7:16 am by Anonymous
How much does a replacement battery cost for a Toyota Prius hybrid? How many miles will the battery last before replacement is necessary? What day-to day maintenance is required is required?
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HOW MUCH IS A REPLACEMENT HYBRID BATTERY?
Right now, they're very expensive because there is no market for them (they aren't wearing out very fast) and because the only supply is through the dealers. As hybrids start to age, I'm pretty sure we'll start to see after-market solutions that are pretty cheap. That should then pressure the OEMs to start reducing the prices as well.
A Insight for $20 can be made to run without ... so as little as $20.
With a RC Battery Anylizer like the Triton and a week of a time a battery can be reconditioned & Reballanced.... $ of Anylizer ~$100 +~1 Week.
For $250 I bought the HEV 120 cell 144V battery from a salvage yard from a HEV 2005 Civic. which would be a direct drop in replacement for a Civic 2005 and earlier.... and the 6 cell subpacks can be directly used in all model year Honda Insights.
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I do not know as much about other / non -Insight HEV... but I suspect they also do not have reconditioning or rebalcning functions in the BCMs so they to might be fixable for ~$100 + 1 Week.
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Not that it matter with the crazy long warranties on HEV Car Batteries from all HEV Car Companies.
Pretty expensive right now because there are no places to promote them and the only way to buy one is through a dealer.
There are currently expensive and only the authorized dealer sells them.Which makes the price standard and expensive.
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