Hybrid Car Batteries
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Do you know how much it costs to replace the battery of a hybrid car?
Also in a hybrid, if the battery goes dead, can you run the car with the engine only? What is voltage rating of the electric motor of a hybrid?
New-from-the-factory hybrid cars currently sold in the U.S. typically carry an 8-year / 100,000-mile warranty on the hybrid battery.
During that period, if the battery fails (which very rarely happens), the cost to replace the battery is FREE. Covered by the warranty.
Just make sure you don't void the warranty by doing things like crash the car, tamper with the system or abuse it by doing things like deep-discharging it.
If after 8 years your warranty expires and the battery starts to fail, YOU DO NOT BUY A NEW BATTERY. That would be the MOST STUPID thing you can do-- Why put a brand-new $2500 traction battery into an 8-year-old car? It's just as foolish as buying a brand-new engine to put into an 8-year-old clunker.
Buy a refurbished battery for around $600 or so, drive the car for a few more years, then get a new car.
Hope this helps.
