It's been a fair number of years since multiple announcements of aftermarket LEAF replacement batteries and, simply put, you still can't buy one. The best option you have right now to replace your Leaf's battery is to get a second hand 40 or 62kWh battery and use Dala's/my CAN bridge firmware to pair it to the car. As arguably the tech originator for a bunch of this stuff, we've been waiting for other parties to come with a good replacement battery option, but it seems like production and financing problems have plagued all the other options. DIY options are now slowly becoming possible from parties like Chooship, but are still reusing the old Leaf BMS and don't have any pack cooling. I don't think that is a workable long-term solution, a lot of the issues with the Leaf packs are down to the BMS and cooling.
So at MUXSAN we've been working on a replacement battery and we'll be announcing this publically soon. It's 45kWh (NMC) and has air cooling, and we offer CCS/CHAdeMO 2.0 charging at up to 100kW as an optional extra. It'll launch in the Netherlands to start, but we're aiming for worldwide shipping (with some liability asterisks). It won't be as cheap as the DIY kits, but not as expensive as our 45kWh extenders. You'll be able to buy one in the 4th quarter of this year and prototypes are going to be on the road and doing publicity 'soon'.
I think I kind of know what Leaf owners want in a hypothetical new battery - a bit more capacity, faster charging, cooling and Leaf Spy Pro support. But of course I'm in my bubble of colleagues in this space, what do YOU want in a replacement battery? This can be hardware or software.
Note that any Leaf Spy Pro feature is going to be dependent on the willingness of Turbo3 to work with us on that (don't get me wrong, he's awesome and really responsive to bugreports etc.).
Big hardware things are probably not going to be feasible, as we're aiming for production in the low hundreds of units per our current businessplan.
So at MUXSAN we've been working on a replacement battery and we'll be announcing this publically soon. It's 45kWh (NMC) and has air cooling, and we offer CCS/CHAdeMO 2.0 charging at up to 100kW as an optional extra. It'll launch in the Netherlands to start, but we're aiming for worldwide shipping (with some liability asterisks). It won't be as cheap as the DIY kits, but not as expensive as our 45kWh extenders. You'll be able to buy one in the 4th quarter of this year and prototypes are going to be on the road and doing publicity 'soon'.
I think I kind of know what Leaf owners want in a hypothetical new battery - a bit more capacity, faster charging, cooling and Leaf Spy Pro support. But of course I'm in my bubble of colleagues in this space, what do YOU want in a replacement battery? This can be hardware or software.
Note that any Leaf Spy Pro feature is going to be dependent on the willingness of Turbo3 to work with us on that (don't get me wrong, he's awesome and really responsive to bugreports etc.).
Big hardware things are probably not going to be feasible, as we're aiming for production in the low hundreds of units per our current businessplan.