I just want to buy cells which are newly manufactured, unused, and which meet the manufacturers specifications in every way, while lacking any type of defect.
Don’t we all. I bet you wouldn’t want to pay for them though!
It’s unfortunate you can’t put a price on a battery until it has failed - i still don’t know the $/kwh of my 11 year old cells.
Judging by the premature failures i’m seeing in the pylontech batteries, as well as the early buyers of the “cheap” CATL aluminium cells - i don’t hold much hope for the EVE / Lishen / CATL etc “backdoor” cells.
Another 5 years will paint a clear picture, and for those saying “who cares - we’ll all be using something different then” remember that was being said about LiFePO4 over a decade ago and nothing has changed.