Battery swaps are likely going to become more and more common, as EVs get older and people start buying higher-mileage ones second-hand. It'll eventually become the new engine swap, and so many people will almost certainly try to DIY it, rather than have it done at a shop. But how hard is it to swap the battery on an EV, and is it easier or harder than swapping an engine? In this new video from Out of Spec Renew, you get to find out on a Ford F-150 Lightning whose battery failed after a whopping 234,000 miles.
Putting 234,000 miles on a car in three years is wild. Even if driven gently, that's a ton of driving in a short period of time, and will abuse even the toughest of cars. Just to hit that amount of mileage. It's a couple hundred miles per calendar day assuming no breaks, which means in the real world this truck probably saw a lot of DC fast charging. So no shade thrown at Ford for its battery failing. It was a valiant effort, and that battery has nothing to be ashamed of. Only one of the modules failed, too, so it wasn't a complete battery death. Fnding a single module that's unhealthy and swapping it out, though, is much harder than just replacing the entire battery. So that's what was done here.
