Summary: Lucked out on Quality. Slow to ship due to stock issues.
Experience:
- ordered April 4: $484 out the door for (4) Eve 280ah
- they contacted me April 15 asking to change cells to CATL 271ah
- I missed that communication and never responded to them until weeks later after seeing they had marked order as shipped. I think not responding worked in my favor because they sent the original Eve cells from a newer batch they must have been waiting on from Eve
- April 19: they marked it shipped, just within then15 day Alibaba shipping agreement time…
- May 12: the shipment was actually picked up by logistics company / first logistics tracking entry… so 5 weeks to ship from order — this is the only negative I can mention
- I think they were just marking shipped on April 19 so Alibaba would keep their “ship on time” metric high…
- communication was good throughout
- cells received Monday, July 12, so over 3 months total but about 2 months after they were actually shipped, all hardware etc was included
The Cells:
- they were Eve LF280K variant. They have laser welded 6mm studs instead of the threaded terminal.
- packed well, no damage, other than very slight flaws in the shrink wrap (which could just be normal from the factory) they looked brand new to me
- most important they appear very well matched and meet/exceed capacity
- top balanced to 3.65v and then wired in series with an overkill/JBD BMS, and look how low the voltage delta is at high SOC! Excellent!
- over this past week the biggest voltage delta is about 5 mv
- overall very happy with the cells, didn’t expect so well matched, appear grade A to my untrained eye, and didn’t expect the newish Eve version with laser welded studs so these exceeded my expectations
After I ordered, Basen increased the price substantially on these Eve cells, I assume they had a higher cost from Eve when they were switching over to this stock around April/may (many people have reported Basen reaching out to them to change from Eve to another cell like they tried with me). So I think I lucked out ans got the new now higher priced Eve cells at the lower cost just by timing luck and not responding to them luck.
So I since ordered 16 Eve 280ah from Amy/Luyuan to build a 48v system.
Experience:
- ordered April 4: $484 out the door for (4) Eve 280ah
- they contacted me April 15 asking to change cells to CATL 271ah
- I missed that communication and never responded to them until weeks later after seeing they had marked order as shipped. I think not responding worked in my favor because they sent the original Eve cells from a newer batch they must have been waiting on from Eve
- April 19: they marked it shipped, just within then15 day Alibaba shipping agreement time…
- May 12: the shipment was actually picked up by logistics company / first logistics tracking entry… so 5 weeks to ship from order — this is the only negative I can mention
- I think they were just marking shipped on April 19 so Alibaba would keep their “ship on time” metric high…
- communication was good throughout
- cells received Monday, July 12, so over 3 months total but about 2 months after they were actually shipped, all hardware etc was included
The Cells:
- they were Eve LF280K variant. They have laser welded 6mm studs instead of the threaded terminal.
- packed well, no damage, other than very slight flaws in the shrink wrap (which could just be normal from the factory) they looked brand new to me
- most important they appear very well matched and meet/exceed capacity
- top balanced to 3.65v and then wired in series with an overkill/JBD BMS, and look how low the voltage delta is at high SOC! Excellent!
- over this past week the biggest voltage delta is about 5 mv
- overall very happy with the cells, didn’t expect so well matched, appear grade A to my untrained eye, and didn’t expect the newish Eve version with laser welded studs so these exceeded my expectations
After I ordered, Basen increased the price substantially on these Eve cells, I assume they had a higher cost from Eve when they were switching over to this stock around April/may (many people have reported Basen reaching out to them to change from Eve to another cell like they tried with me). So I think I lucked out ans got the new now higher priced Eve cells at the lower cost just by timing luck and not responding to them luck.
So I since ordered 16 Eve 280ah from Amy/Luyuan to build a 48v system.