We ship our translator kits internationally and these have helped to enable LEAF battery upgrades to be completed safely and easily anywhere in the world – assuming a good donor battery can be found. Therefore, the availability of 16 Blade in your country will depend on us reaching sufficient production volumes to meet demand as well as regulations in your country, but also on a company close to you.ġ) We intend on offering both lease and finance options within New Zealand and our international partners may also offer similar options in other markets.Ģ) We’ve already developed a complete range of plug-in battery translator kits to allow newer and larger capacity original LEAF battery packs to be put straight into cars needing an upgrade.
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Once production is underway at full steam, we’re planning to focus our efforts on providing completed packs for our local New Zealand market and providing kits to help international partners produce the product for their local market. This is to help them gain confidence in the product and thoroughly test it under their own local conditions before deciding to make a commitment to buying manufacturing equipment and completing training. Otherwise you end up shipping a lot of donor battery enclosures back and forth around the world which is unnecessary and avoidable.Ĭompanies that are serious about purchasing 16 Blade in kit-set form and doing final assembly in their own country will be able to purchase a single complete battery pack from us without a trade in pack at an elevated price for evaluation purposes. The original battery modules can then be re-purposed but stay in the country they are already in. We’re planning for Australia to be our test case for supplying 16 Blade GREEN in kit-set form where the finished battery packs will be assembled there by a team that we’ve trained to build the product to the high standards that we expect.īecause we re-use the original battery enclosure when creating a new 16 Blade pack, it is most efficient to have the pack enclosure modifications and assembly completed relatively close to where the end customers are. The first deliveries of 16 Blade GREEN outside of New Zealand will likely be to our neighbours over in Australia. However, there will be options to keep your original modules/cells repackaged into a more convenient form factor for stationary storage applications.
Because we re-use the original battery enclosure when creating a new 16 Blade pack, there will be no option to buy 16 Blade without trading in a pack in exchange. The trade-in price offered will depend on the condition of your original pack, but taking this option will reduce your final cost of an upgrade. It is also important to remember that the above price guide is BEFORE the trade in of your original battery pack. Our focus from the outset has been on making a superior product with a better design leading to improved performance and a longer life-cycle. However, for a finished 16 Blade GREEN pack, we are NOT aiming to undercut the retail price of US$11,225 that Nissan USA charges for a new, but inferior 40kWh battery. We’re sticking with that idea for a little longer until we start accepting orders. With global inflation continuing to work against us all, our decision not to announce a fixed price during our initial anouncement of the 16 Blade platform has turned out to be the right one.
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