Hagen Brothers farms,Goodrich ND | Ron..NE ILL..10/48 - 1/11/2019 05:40
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The Chevy Volt may now be a bad example. It's been discontinued. Also, unless something has changed in the past few months, only a few Chevy dealerships are able to service/swap the battery equipment. Not every dealer has or wants the equipment or training to do it. That is an option to the dealer. Rural dealers have no use for it.
Not sure what will happen to maintain them in the future. Might be like getting your Wankel engine serviced.
Using the Toyota Prius hybrid as an example as they have been on the road for more than 15 years. There are several independent Prius battery rebuilders that will rebuild the battery pack anywhere from replacing one failed cell for a few hundred to replacing all cells to make a new battery pack. I have seen the battery (total rebuild all new cells)rebuilt and installed in your car for in the $1700- $2500 range , depending on how much material and labor is involved,
This is 1/2 to 2/3 what a dealer would charge. Full electrics with their several times larger battery would be more.
The ND government is discussing how to fairly charge hybrid and BEV cars to pay their share to repair the roads. One suggestion was add $70 to the registration fee of a hybrid , and increase the full electric BEV registration by $200.
The tough one to fairly charge is the plug in hybrid, most of them can run 20-40 miles on electric until the battery is low and they have to switch to gasoline power. The guy who never exceeded 40 miles per day might never use a drop of tax paid gasoline, while another fellow in the same car that must drive 200 miles per day would pay no gas tax on the first 40 miles, but would burn tax paid gasoline for the remaining 160 miles.
Edited by Jon Hagen 1/11/2019 21:32
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