Doesnt Nissan offer a new battery replacement for a Leaf at the cost of 10k.
The battery being replaced needs to be working and have 8 bar health ?
Alternatively I believe its 30k for batteries only.
No. 8 bars or
less, you can keep driving it until it's very low if you don't need the range to do your usual driving. Cadogan the bogan strikes again!
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Here's an interesting one on the changover of a Nissan Leaf Battery. $33,000? No! Try $9990
thecarguy.com.au
It's likely that a lot of these batteries will end up attached to people's houses. Nissan and other companies who get returned batteries aren't doing it to make new batteries out of the old cells, there are some rapidly growing startups buying up old batteries from manufacturers and repurposing them for home power. Local storage using batteries on their second life makes a lot of sense.
On solar, it is true that there is some shit on the market, it is true that solar panels are difficult right now to recycle. But please do your homework about manufacturing, noting that this number is from a manufacturer and in reality would be lower if the degradation of panels is not best case scenario or the buyer bought shit ones, source is LG Energy:
A 6.6
kw solar system will produce around 10,600
kwh a year which will save around 10.6 tonnes of
CO2 emissions per year. Taking into account the two years to pay off the embedded
energy in the
panel, after 25 years a 6.6
kw system will have a net saving of around 243 tonnes of
CO2
Decentralising power as much as possible, and increasing storage is a far better thing to do than going down the road of nuclear and continuing to burn fossil fuels. I mainly want a battery because governments aren't forcing the power companies to pay me adequately for the solar I don't use. Despite this, I still have provided a net saving of 20 tonnes CO2 in 5 years. Should be about 52 tonnes by the time 10 years rolls around. My systme cost me double 5 years ago what the same one costs now.
But try convincing someone that they should have a $5-10k battery or solar when there's still so much gas in the ground and they can have a bigger tv, a new mountain bike, a trip to Tassie to ride it. Whinging about 10 year battery or not getting 25 year solar lifespan but spending more than the cost of those systems on your hobby yearly, belching out CO2 to drive somewhere cool to ride? Good one. Please nobody take that personally, but it is a harsh reality we all need to think about instead of ranting about what we
can't do. Do I get 5 new $5000 bikes and a bunch of trips to Tassie over 10 years because that's the amount of CO2 in bikes and trips (very rough estimate) saved by having solar? No I don't.
This argument will always come back to government's role, we can bang on about tech saving us but unelss the laws are in place to force people to do something rather than give them the easy way out we're all fucked.
www.solarquotes.com.au
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