The battery is the most expensive element of an electric car: Replacing it can cost between 4,000 euros to 33,000 euros, depending on whether a module or the entire module needs to be changed. It is therefore one of its most precious components. And what increases the price the most is zero emissions.
That is why it is not surprising that spare parts companies began to look for everything that could be used from a derailed train that was transporting a total of 60 Porsche Taycan. The cars were damaged beyond repair, but many of their battery modules No. So they have rescued them. Or at least that’s what it’s promised.
Few buyers interested in these modules?
The website that sells these precious Porsche Taycan battery modules It’s Jag35. They have been available for months, if we take into account that InsideEvs found them in June. In the product sheet they detail its origin: the supposed and indicated train that derailed with 60 units of the electric sports car and of those who were able to recover some pieces.
Among them, these 22 volt 2.8 kWh modules consisting of 12 LG Chem cells each. It is also indicated that they have a built-in BMS secondary board that “records voltages and temperature sensors for the six groups of cells”, but that also requires a communication controller from the unit that interested parties will have to find on their own. Jag35 has taken care of making the task easier: one of these BMS controllers is offered for 800 euros on another site.
The Taycan battery has many more components than the cell modules.
This website sells each module for 143.95 euros. Its price has dropped, since before it was 189 euros. It is understood that they are taking time to find buyers because, in addition to the controller, other components would have to be added to form a complete battery. For example the casing, the cooling system, the wiring or the protection plate. To which is added the appropriate knowledge to assemble it, something clearly complicated.
Furthermore, installing the Taycan battery is not cheap. Since it has 33 modules, it only Putting them together by buying them on this website means about 4,700 euros. To which we must add the rest of the components mentioned or the controller, which is already around 1,000 euros.
The Porsche Taycan is one of the first cars to sit on an 800-volt platform instead of the usual 400-volt one, as do the Audi e-tron GT, the Hyundai Ioniq 5 or the Kia EV6.
As Porsche detailsin the Performance Plus two-layer battery there are 33 modulesmade up of twelve individual elements each (in total, 396). Its total capacity is 93.4 kWh. In the so-called “pouch” cells, the electrode assembly is not contained in a rigid casing, but in a flexible film of composite material that helps make the most of the structure and reduce weight.
In short, a work of engineering that makes the task of “doing it in your workshop” complicated, since it would mean being on the same level as Porsche engineers. Furthermore, a battery must be safe and approved for circulation, or it can be even more fatal in the event of an accident. We have already seen what happens when it catches fire and the potential danger it poses to the occupants. This with batteries designed by authorized brands or manufacturers.
What’s more, precisely Porsche in the US has just carried out a recall of almost 30,000 Taycan models due to a possible risk of short circuit in their battery that increases the possibility of them ending up in flames.
Source: www.motorpasion.com
