Hello all. came on here like 2 years ago about buying a rebuilt hybrid battery. First off, I see the car like a taxi in a city, which makes a giant difference in the batteries' lasting, as compared to driving on the highway daily to work. results Don't buy a rebuilt. costs about $1100 each, 1-year warranty . Buy new if the car is clean and nice. In 2.5 years, I am on battery #4, 2 different companies' total costs. $2200 not worth it. But if you have an old car and must buy. Pay extra for the 3-year warranty. The last company used Toyota TechStream to check out the entire car. It was fine. i think if i was just a to a from work guy. the battery would have lasted much longer..taxi type job..hope this saves a member here. thank you bobby
Most people already know this if they've been on Prius Chat for long. Whack a Mole..... Buying a used battery, of any type, is extremely risky. Knowing the REAL and complete history of the battery helps, but it's extremely rare you get his information. Sodium Ion is the way to go in today's time.
Are you running one of these sodium things from the guy that used to sell the pouch filled modules . Jack something or another. That sodium business seems to be doing okay so far? Cool. because at some point I'm imagining Toyota is going to stop making the nimh . Or Panasonic is going to stop making that thing and then what ? I mean generally with Toyota they'll leave them or have them long enough until the cars that need are gone . I mean this whole battery thing to me is a mess I don't see what the big deal is you need x amount of volts with x amount of energy behind it that's the what mAh so I need 200V and say 8000 mah or such . Drop something like that in the back of the car and the car should be able to charge it discharge it so on until it cannot . But apparently they've engineered a whole lot more nonsense into the business so there you'd be .
It's going to be a LONG time before NiMH is no longer available. These NiMH were still being installed in 2025 models. If they're being made for new cars, there's no reason to not keep making them for the older ones also. I recently bought a 34 module NiMH battery from a wrecked 2025 to build a fresh battery for my car. $800 and out the door.
They keep saying this kind of stuff and then you turn around and you can't get one for 4 months because the scaling back production and only making what they can sell yearly? Something I mean these are my fone batteries in 87 or do Motorola microtac fone
