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The good news is that small third party companies filled the gap for the Insight which has a much lower number of units on the road. When that third battery started to crap out, I added a grid charger so that I could recondition/balance the battery periodically and limped along until I got the Volt.
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It lasted less than two years before I got yet another free replacement. The problem is that Honda had discontinued the Insight in 2006 so my replacement battery had been sitting on a shelf somewhere for years. In 2009 I managed to score a replacement battery on my Insight just before the 10/100K warranty expired. I do think there will be aftermarket replacement battery packs available for EV’s, just as other aftermarket engines and other things are available for older gasoline cars today.Īfter a time, the issue becomes: is GM using the same battery tech? If GM moves to the skate board configuration that seems to be the rage, then will they choose to stockpile some old Volt batteries and let them sit until needed? From personal experience, these batteries don't store well. It should be possible to obtain a replacement battery, but after many years it may not be worth putting in the car at that point. If after many years and hundreds of thousands of miles the Volt may eventually act more like a typical Prius type hybrid, but it will still have some reduced pure EV range. So there’s very little to worry about with respect to the longevity and reliability of the battery pack. Only Tesla and GM really utilize this battery preservation process to that extent.
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That plus the elaborate liquid cooling and temperature monitoring and control system for the battery leads to reliability and longevity. The Volt has a built-in buffer - both at the top and the bottom - the “empty” and “full” parts of the battery - to keep the battery more in the middle of its capacity, which is what lithium ion batteries like. Several volts are well past 200,000 miles and still functioning well on the battery. There are plenty of answers about these topics in the forum if you do word searches you will find more than you want probably on the topics.īut in summary, the experience on the battery packs has been that there’s been very few failures, and little in terms of degradation, even at more than 150,000 miles. Can the batteries be reconditioned after they age and show degradation? I assume not but thought I’d ask. Is there a cutoff when the car will not longer function as a EV but as a hybrid only? Can the car even function as a hybrid with a battery that is so degraded that it will no longer operate as a EV?ģ. As the battery degrades I assume our EV range gets shorter.
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Volts have been on the road for close to a decade now so hopefully there is some data available to base an estimate on.Ģ. Is there any data on how long we can expect our batteries to last? After 14 years I expect it will be difficult to obtain a replacement battery, but hopefully not impossible.
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I know GM guarantees the battery for 100k miles (not sure if there is a time limit on that). So based on that it would take me about 14 years to get to 100k miles. I usually keep my cars 10-15 years and have been averaging about 7k miles a year on my Volt in the two years I have owned it. With GM’s decision to discontinue the Volt I had a couple questions for the forum relative to the expected battery life of a Volt.
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