Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.
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Hope all goes well for your Family.
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Gale hope your family recovers quickly.
Was the Leaf totaled? Is the battery pack salvageable? The battery pack (or part of it) would make a really nice battery pack in a golf cart.
A look inside Nissan Leaf lithium battery pack
Was the Leaf totaled? Is the battery pack salvageable? The battery pack (or part of it) would make a really nice battery pack in a golf cart.
A look inside Nissan Leaf lithium battery pack
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Thanks for all the best wishes.
It just happened late yesterday and I was done for when I got off of the backhoe and was at the accident 20 minutes later.y hands were shaking too much to use the phone to get photos so our son got 5 shots on my phone. The van shaved 1 foot off the nose and set off the front airbags when the Leaf tagged mini van in right rear door when it ran the red light. Contact was well in front of front tires even. The radiator and condenser are still in place but deformed. I think motor , heat pump, inverter charger were never touched. The battery is rear of the front tires and in front of the rear wheels. Hood shot but front fenders could be worked out. All front lights were in the street. All 5 doors open and seem to fit fine.
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This shows the impact point on our 2016 Leaf SL as it hit the red van in right rear door as the van ran a red light.
The van flipped on to its top and in the photo you can see the tow truck that flipped the van back on its tires. Our Leaf rolled on through the intersection after the impact. It seems when the airbags deploy it shifts to N and hard locks out D and R usage.
I really want some Tesla FSD equipped vehicles.
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Is that rebuildable? If not, it should have huge salvage value. On to a Tesla?
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It can be rebuilt I expect and most likely will be totaled because insurance carriers do not like open claims and paying for rentals. I will ask if they would provide an EV rental in this case. I am guessing if a Tesla owner was insured through Tesla that you would get a Tesla loaner. 
Other than the windshield and air bags it should be mainly a wrenching job if I can find the same trim and color car for parts. If we do it ourselves (EV repair training for my son and me) we will do it in one of the bays in his shop. The one man body shop that I like is about a mile up the road from his shop.
After the adjuster gets finished doing her thing we need to figure out how to unlock the Drive and Reverse function so we can trailer it.
Clearly I want 2-3 vehicles from Tesla with FSD enabled to help prevent accidents like this in the future. If I had the money to do that I would not have a Leaf today.
Other than the windshield and air bags it should be mainly a wrenching job if I can find the same trim and color car for parts. If we do it ourselves (EV repair training for my son and me) we will do it in one of the bays in his shop. The one man body shop that I like is about a mile up the road from his shop.
After the adjuster gets finished doing her thing we need to figure out how to unlock the Drive and Reverse function so we can trailer it.
Clearly I want 2-3 vehicles from Tesla with FSD enabled to help prevent accidents like this in the future. If I had the money to do that I would not have a Leaf today.
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...Clearly I want 2-3 vehicles from Tesla with FSD enabled to help prevent accidents like this in the future. If I had the money to do that I would not have a Leaf today.
That is a good case study where that would have helped.
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Golly, based on Internet Lore your LEAF should have immediately burst into 5000°F flames!
Perhaps it is time to schedule a Tesla test drive. If you buy please use me as a reference. You get 1,000 miles free Supercharging and my name goes in the pot for a monthly drawing for a Model Y. http://ts.la/david6536
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