Recent content by neilnz

The price is low by local standards, but not globally. Being in New Zealand has certain small-market downsides, like price gauging for LiFePO4 cells and it being somewhat uneconomic to ship moderate quantities of batteries from China. This has me looking at leaf batteries as they're probably the...

"State of Health". A polite way for a car/leafspy to tell someone how much life its battery has left. As I understand it, you can basically take it as a percentage of the rated capacity of the pack when it was new, so a 36% SOH 24KWh leaf battery pack has ~8.64Kwh of usable capacity, plus...

Apologies if this has been broached in another thread, I couldn't find anything specifically. I've been offered a complete 24KWh gen 1 pack for a reasonable price, but it's at 36% SOH. I know nothing much more about its life than that, but it's from a 2011 so it's old. Is it likely to give...