[shewb]

I installed it last night in 1.5 hours again... there's like 50 machine screws holding everything together under there, and a dozen connectors to deal with.
On the drive to work this morning everything worked fine. It charged up rather more quickly then I expected - about 5 minutes at 2000-3000 rpm on my gravel country road. After slowly rising to about 30% SOC, it jumped two or three bars at a time in the next minute, to 100%.

I think I'm getting more ASST than ever before - 100 percent ASST when I needed it.

The new battery was shipped in a state of discharge. I couldn't measure any voltages like I did on the used batteries I've had.
Is this a first - that the dealer sold me the battery pack over the parts desk (not literally!) and let me install it myself :?: IIRC they always insisted on doing the work themselves.
- Jim

 

[shewb]

Oh, and speaking of recycling, guess what the "core charge" was, to entice me to return the old battery pack to the dealer?
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$3000.00 yes that's Three Thousand US Dollars. :shock:
I guess they don't want anyone dumping them in the local landfill. They want to recycle all that Nickel and Cobalt.
Needless to say, I returned one of the old battery packs from my garage at the same time as I picked up the new one.
- Jim