Not to be a downer, but would anyone really pay WK057 $25k for a battery - the upper limit of the range? At that price, you would get a Tesla battery with a 4 year warranty.
It's happened. Salvage cars, particularly floods, have gone this route.
I have sent clean title folks back to Tesla (charging them nothing for the work to check things out, including pack removal and reinstall)... since yeah, I'm not going to tell anyone they have to do that when they have a better option.
That said, that's not super common. Realistically ends up towards the higher end of core value with us.
Wouldn't the potential low end of transport costs be zero in all scenarios. The battery will fail - at least by your definition of fail - while still driveable. I think even Tesla declares the battery a total loss sometimes even if still driveable.
Well, it's never
really $0. Gonna cost you _something_... but yeah, potentially $0, but less likely in a full failure to be $0.
Your price for replacement seems mostly as high as Tesla and Tesla gives a 4 year warranty - which you would charge at least $4k for if you even offered 4 years. Or does your repair have an included warranty when done outside of service plan?
You've got the option to get a discounted service plan with a replacement now.
Again, our high end cost is super unlikely and I wouldn't expect anyone to go for it nor would I push that on anyone. If we can't do it cheaper than Tesla, I'll trailer your car from us to Charlotte Tesla for you.
Don't get me wrong, I love the service plan option - just wondering about some of that chart.
Given there are reports of $11k for a reman battery from Tesla with 4 year warranty, that is only $2700 a year and that is if you have a failure. Obviously $11k is more than $4k but would only be justified if the failure rate was 30% or higher. Otherwise, rolling the dice seems reasonable.
Now your battery repair may give a much better battery than a Tesla reman but I hope you can see my logic.
The low end options from Tesla are nearly non-existent. And if they are, I've seen a half-year wait for a reman 85 that was garbage. Tesla's higher end cost is most common (I have dozens of estimates customers have sent me).
Even if you factor in another 4 years of extended service, our service plan replacements at the worst case are _still_ cheaper than Tesla options on their low end... so I don't really get the issue.