Battery and Charger question for a 2015 Spark ev

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jjl

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I have to choose between three 2015 Sparks and would like your opinion about battery life. I drive about 7000 miles per year in Los Angeles. They are all GM Certified, and come with DC fast charge installed. I am leaning toward getting the 36,559 due to it's lower price.
1. 21,822 miles-$9,990
2. 26,970 miles-$9,453
3. 34,141 miles-$9,453
4. 36,559 miles-8,553
Is there any reason for me to be concerned about the mileage and how it might impact the battery life?
I am also looking at picking up a Used Leviton EVB32-M8L Evr-Green 320 Charger Station level 2 32-Amp.
Any thoughts about using this charger with the Spark?
 
jjl said:
I have to choose between three 2015 Sparks and would like your opinion about battery life. I drive about 7000 miles per year in Los Angeles. They are all GM Certified, and come with DC fast charge installed. I am leaning toward getting the 36,559 due to it's lower price.
1. 21,822 miles-$9,990
2. 26,970 miles-$9,453
3. 34,141 miles-$9,453
4. 36,559 miles-8,553
Is there any reason for me to be concerned about the mileage and how it might impact the battery life?
I am also looking at picking up a Used Leviton EVB32-M8L Evr-Green 320 Charger Station level 2 32-Amp.
Any thoughts about using this charger with the Spark?
Since you do not know how each vehicle was driven and what care was given to maximizing HV battery life, I would suggest you find someone, who is set up using TorquePro programmed with the Chevy Bolt PIDs and an appropriate OBD2 adapter, to measure the actual HV battery capacity. This would especially be true for those vehicles over 30k miles. I know of three 2015 Spark EVs that suffered some significant battery degradation right around 30k mlies. I am not saying this is true for all 2015s but I would sure want to measure the actual battery capacity to rule out Spark EVs with any significant degradation.
 
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