I’ve got a little over 4 year old battery that has a @2k1Toaster kit in it that is having problems. I just need a module or two to fix it. Has he been around lately? now answer to repeated emails and phone calls. I thought about a project lithium battery but they don’t seem to be stocking anything anymore. Am I left with a rebuilt or new Toyota battery?
Not good. IIRC he was talking about just doing business with “fleets”. From now on. Don’t see that justifying ignoring current customers.
The small online businesses sometimes finance their current operations on future revenues they have already collected as pre-orders. They may have a good product but can't drop ship fast enough. They depend on ever increasing sales to cover them. A pyramid scheme used in retail sales. Works until it doesn't. Some buyers will do a credit card chargeback before that option expires. The seller tries to delay with promises to avoid chargeback fees which make that transaction a loss which requires more pre-orders to keep the ship afloat. Somewhere here the modules are listed direct from china. Without the US drop shipper.
still in business afaik, there are a couple of threads here. when he comes out from his rock occasionally, he communicates and defends himself with excuses, talks about shipments and inventory, and then slips back under the rock. every once in awhile, a customer will claim great communication with the business, but more often than not, it's a black hole
I got a response that said the buss bars were probably not torqued correctly. I ran a maxx volts charger on it to see if it might help, I didn’t get a response when I emailed if that would work. I’ve never been able to get any software to give any meaningful information about the pack. Dr Prius showed it had 37% life when it was new and now shows 31%. I was hoping enough people bought one that their might Be some support. I guess I’ll just keep driving it until it dies, not a big confidence booster. The car runs great and I’ve done the work so it doesn’t burn oil or anything. I guess getting a new stock pack installed is inevitable. has anyone had issues with the lithium kit. I saw they had a version 2 available and I’d have to by a trash battery for the core charge. I just bought a 2009 with a much higher grime level and the same milage as mine and had planned on putting this battery in it and putting in a rebuilt to sell the car. This through a wrench in that idea.
I would buy a couple from Alibaba per my pic above. Realize these sellers are usually drop shipping direct from china. Generally takes three or four weeks. Obviously these cells have nowhere near the life and perhaps the capacity of oem. They should be retailing for half or less of oem to be viable and maybe the buyer should expect less than two years of reliable operation. Especially when others have bought oem cells for $1650.
So, you left that hanging. We'd be interested to know if you checked the torque in each of the bus bars? Given what you've posted in other threads, I'm guessing you didn't check them. When you initially installed the NPB modules, did you use a torque wrench to torque down each module? Well, something hasn't been right there from the get-go. Other people have documented their NPB installs to show 100% or more on Dr. Prius. If I had to guess, if you're not going to work with NPB and follow the advice given, you are not going to get very much engagement from him. Is that a good business model? Maybe not, but it seems how he rolls.
A person on reddit has been waiting a month for their fedex tracking information to update to 'received'. I wouldn't hold my breath that things have changed for the better.
