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Final Update: The i-MiEV is now sold. Circumstances have obdurately worked against me and my ideas of building a replacement battery pack from scratch for the car. The considerable pile of unused equipment I had bought to do the job is also going to be sold. I can't see me being in a position...

It's 2021 and my i-Miev had a "critical recall notice" from Mitsubishi headquarters regarding a brake servo issue so I just booked it in at the local Mitsubishi main dealer and told them to slap an MOT on it too. Then, once I had a captive audience so to speak, I got them to quote me for a...

Sorry guys. It seems only fair to update this thread seeing as I kicked it off again this year, even though I have no information to further the subject. My whole project is in fact on hold for the time being. Unfortunately my wife was diagnosed with a terminal condition about 3 weeks before...

I have heard good things about this kit before, along with some damning reports about the Chinese units doing the rounds, so I've ordered one. Thank you for posting the links.

Anyone got first hand experience of a decent spot welder to put batteries together with? Looking at this at the moment... https://malectrics.eu/product/diy-arduino-battery-spot-welder-prebuilt-kit-v3/

20 x 21700 LG M-50 cells ordered and on their way for initial testing. This is enough for a 100 Ah cell, double the capacity of the LEV-50 used in the car currently, lighter and in the same form factor. If I can get it to work, a full pack (at the price I paid for 20) would cost £5200 just in...

Posting this thread here as we're likely going over a lot of old ground already covered otherwise. http://myimiev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2124 What we're really waiting for in 2020 is this fated reduction in battery cost to filter down to us lowly home gamers.

Thanks for the advice. I did edit my post having realised I was looking at fake cells. RE: your 21700 link. To replace the entire battery pack of an I-miev, equal the cars original capacity, with these would cost around £4,250 just for the cells. This is pretty good. £5000 seems to be a...

So I'm looking at 18650 3.7v 5000mAh Li-ion cells. Using these would of course mean assembling my own battery packs from scratch BUT... To purchase just over the required replacement capacity for the standard I-miev, the batteries I have found so far would only cost £660 in this format. That...

Well... Here we are in 2020 And here I am with a 2010 I-Miev, with only 27000 miles on it, that can only just cover 25 miles on a full charge! So this thread is more relevant now that it was when it was first posted but there is still no good news regarding official replacement costs I see. I...