[electro wrks]

This used battery appeared on eBay yesterday, and was quickly grabbed-up:https://www.ebay.com/itm/TESLA-MODEL-S-BATTERY-2016-2017-P-100D-1086755-00-D-100KWH-400VDC-OEM-/222758459632?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&nma=true&si=mjt1G%252BXTHTHufXPk5OBC9saLwNA%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

In the text of the posting, if you click-on "See full item description", the poster writes that a new battery costs ~ $23k. Does this seem right?

 

[kennybobby]

Yes

If you could even buy those special 18650 cells at ? $3 each, with over 7000 cells in a pack, plus the cell monitoring boards, the BMS board, the smart fuse, the hellacious contactors, the thermal coolant path that touches each cell, the rugged housing with titanium front shield, etc... how could you even come close to building something like that for $20k ? $20k is a bargain much less the price for used packs--smoke em if you got em, er, buy em if you can get em...

 

[electrico]

Reading in plugincars.com the following.

"
I'll let our more actuarially-oriented readers run the numbers on when the 85-kWh pack price will drop to the $141-per-kWh price represented by Tesla's $12,000 offer. But frankly, that's beside the point. Tesla's offer to replace the Model S battery pack, eight years down the road, is about selling more cars now.Dec 4, 2012"