hill
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Eventually it WILL happen . . . only we're already trained to call it "Capacity Loss". At some point, it's too much . . . . and we'll need a new pack. With all the talk of Arizona owners' capacity loss, one may start thinking, "What's my traction pack's scrap value worth". Nissan talks about that pack's 100% recycle-ability, and that's great. But heck - I take 30lbs-40lbs of crushed aluminum soda cans, and I walk away with a nice chunk o change. What about spent lithium packs? Anything? Nothing? There's not even a deposit on them? Would I be better off keeping them? Seems they'd still make a nice aux back up to run my PV solar during a power outage. I've already figured out how to disconnect our grid tied system and spoof our PV inverters into thinking they're still grid tied. That way, during a power outage, we're good to go. If a spent Leaf pack can be effectively charged - once it's 'spent' ... and out of the car ... maybe owners can find more uses, rather than potentially giving away something for nothing. Or am I wrong in thinking there's some value that's just scheduled to some day be given away for nothing. Several RAV4-EV owners have had packs 'reconditioned' successfully (partly because it IS do-able, and partly because the Panasonic large format nickel cells are no longer in production) ... and although theirs' is a different chemistry ... it makes me wonder if it'd be possible with lithium ... or to what extent at least.
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