Just hit my 500th repair on a hybrid battery pack and I'm still amazed at how far EV tech has come

I run a small shop and do a lot of hybrid battery work on the side. Last Tuesday I finished my 500th pack rebuild on a 2013 Prius C. Five hundred seemed like a big number so I crunched some math. Turns out those repairs kept around 4,000 pounds of battery cells out of a landfill over 8 years. Did you know that one dead pack weighs about 150 pounds? Has anyone else hit a weird milestone that made them think about the bigger picture?

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abby_kim551d ago

Does your breakdown count include the labor hours on average per pack, or just the material weights? I'm curious how the time investment compares to the environmental payoff.

the_jordan1d agoMost Upvoted

...and that reminds me, I once spent like four hours hand-sewing a single patch pocket on a backpack because I kept messing up the stitching. So if labor hours were part of the equation, that backpack was a climate disaster before it even held a water bottle. I think about that every time someone talks about the weight of materials vs the time spent making something. The sweat equity alone probably cancels out any good from using recycled fabric.