Yes - it really ought to remain possible for many years.Carlton green wrote: ↑28 Mar 2023, 9:12amI’ve heard of folk replacing whole Leaf batteries too but in practice my search for folk who do that in the UK hasn’t turned up any results. One expert company that used to do it - funnily enough the same one as in the video above - has stopped: https://www.cleevelyev.co.uk/battery-upgrades/
That’s a pity really because ready supply of replacement and capacity upgraded batteries would allow otherwise good cars to remain in use rather than end up as scrap - amongst other things that’s a waste of the embedded CO2 from their original manufacture.
I think it's the use of majority DC charging (and probably "enthusiastic" driving) that's the issue, not the 120k miles - though I know a lot of cars don't get to 100k miles.The video did highlight an extreme use issue with Leaf battery thermal control and I anticipate that the Taxi was charged a lot and not necessarily at low rate either. I’ve read elsewhere that the end position cell(s) are cooled least and so more subject to this failure, but really don’t currently know enough to more constructively comment on that.
120k miles, as in the video for the Taxi, sounds a lot but these days I’d expect that out of any car. Forty years ago my family parted with a 2CV , it was running well and had 150k miles on the clock.
I keep turning up decade old numbers, but the average mileage at scrappage in the uk is reported as between 106k and 125k - that marries up with the ~13 years typical age that is more current with ~8km/year typical usage.
I'd also wager that your family spent some not inconsiderable time and effort maintaining the 2CV in good running order.