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This article is part of an archived collection from Nikolay Shishkov's blog about first-generation electric vehicles, battery maintenance, modifications, and repairs. Nikolay was an EV pioneer who passed away in 2025. His technical knowledge and generous sharing of information continues to help the EV community.

Clean up of another RAV4 EV battery pack

By Nikolay Shishkov • January 27, 2019

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Some time ago I took part in cleaning of a battery pack of a RAV4 EV that was producing the leak detection error and refused to charge.

The battery pack was very dirty and the aluminium pop-nits were dissolved by the extreme salting on the roads.

So here are some photos from this.

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Comments (1)

Keith Fongheiser

March 14, 2022 at 01:09 AM

Is anyone still doing this? I have one of these cars and could use a refurbish of the batteries or even a replacement. Just curious if anyone is still doing this or is willing to try. Thanks!