New Prius Batteries.com still around?

Not good.

IIRC he was talking about just doing business with “fleets”. From now on. Don’t see that justifying ignoring current customers.

 

The small online businesses sometimes finance their current operations on future revenues they have already collected as pre-orders. They may have a good product but can't drop ship fast enough. They depend on ever increasing sales to cover them. A pyramid scheme used in retail sales. Works until it doesn't.

Some buyers will do a credit card chargeback before that option expires. The seller tries to delay with promises to avoid chargeback fees which make that transaction a loss which requires more pre-orders to keep the ship afloat.

Somewhere here the modules are listed direct from china. Without the US drop shipper.

 

still in business afaik, there are a couple of threads here. when he comes out from his rock occasionally, he communicates and defends himself with excuses, talks about shipments and inventory, and then slips back under the rock.
every once in awhile, a customer will claim great communication with the business, but more often than not, it's a black hole

 

it's a darned shame

 

I would buy a couple from Alibaba per my pic above.

Realize these sellers are usually drop shipping direct from china. Generally takes three or four weeks.

Obviously these cells have nowhere near the life and perhaps the capacity of oem. They should be retailing for half or less of oem to be viable and maybe the buyer should expect less than two years of reliable operation.

Especially when others have bought oem cells for $1650.

 

So, you left that hanging. We'd be interested to know if you checked the torque in each of the bus bars? Given what you've posted in other threads, I'm guessing you didn't check them. When you initially installed the NPB modules, did you use a torque wrench to torque down each module?

Well, something hasn't been right there from the get-go. Other people have documented their NPB installs to show 100% or more on Dr. Prius.

If I had to guess, if you're not going to work with NPB and follow the advice given, you are not going to get very much engagement from him. Is that a good business model? Maybe not, but it seems how he rolls.

 

A person on reddit has been waiting a month for their fedex tracking information to update to 'received'.

I wouldn't hold my breath that things have changed for the better.

 

Agreed, still incommunicado