Electric vehicles are seeing a meteoric rise in the Canadian market. In B.C., in particular, with zero emission vehicles now making up eight per cent of vehicle sales, the province’s vehicle fleet is rapidly becoming the most electrified in the world. As many of those vehicles now approach the end of their warranty periods, many owners are set to join Brander in learning that their vehicle’s most critical component — the battery pack — is often difficult to replace. As the electric vehicle revolution hits Canadian roads in earnest, many of those cars might end up hitting the junkyard far sooner than buyers suspect.
The National Post conducted an informal survey of Western Canadian Nissan dealerships to ask the cost of replacing a battery pack on a 2013 Nissan Leaf. Estimates ranged from $8,000 to an eyewatering $30,953.28 plus $1,200 in labour.
Virtually every dealer contacted said they had never once performed a non-warranty battery replacement, and that ordering a full stack replacement is a complex process unlike any other Nissan component. “It’s not a normal process,” said one Vancouver Island dealer.
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