Is a battery tender supposed to be included at delivery?

[cyanmauve]

Hey y’all,

It looks like some of y’all may have received Lotus-branded battery tenders when taking delivery of your cars.

I had an inflator in my trunk, but no tender.

Thoughts?

Thanks

 

[LuckysDad]

You should have a Battery Tender included

 

[CHEESE]

It should have come with one, but to be sure, check your window sticker. For my FEv1, it's listed under the "Options and Additional Charges Section" as "Battery Maintainer $0"

 

[Nick in Sydney]

Must be a US market thing . . . we didn't get them in Australia

 

[cyanmauve]

Must be a US market thing . . . we didn't get them in Australia

Since y’all are below the equator, the battery charges up instead of draining down when the car isn’t in use. Kind of like how the water in the toilet swirls the opposite direction from here.

I’m pretty sure that’s how science and thus electrons work.

 

[DerTheDer]

Yup got one that came with the car.

 

[cyanmauve]

I just checked my sticker. Yup, it should have been in the car when delivered.

 

[scc.131.fe]

packaging photos for reference

 

[scarzie]

I got one. However, I'm kinda miffed because I offered to ship my CTEK leads down to have them installed by the dealer and they told me I'd be getting one with the lead ready. Lo and behold I still need to install the lead myself... not like it's a huge hassle but given some of the early UK members having some mishaps I was hoping it'd be ready to go

 

[virtualmacho]

Seems like a US only thing, with the cars sitting in the dealers' warehouses for weeks prior to CARB certification. We didn't get those in Japan.

 

[Kimmax]

No tender for any German owner I know

 

[CHEESE]

I got one. However, I'm kinda miffed because I offered to ship my CTEK leads down to have them installed by the dealer and they told me I'd be getting one with the lead ready. Lo and behold I still need to install the lead myself... not like it's a huge hassle but given some of the early UK members having some mishaps I was hoping it'd be ready to go

Installing the leads is part of the PDI process, so yeah, they should have done it with the Lotus-provided maintainer/leads.

Seems like a US only thing, with the cars sitting in the dealers' warehouses for weeks prior to CARB certification. We didn't get those in Japan.

It may just be a US thing, but it doesn't have anything to do with sitting in warehouses. My dealer mentioned to me that Emiras would come with the battery maintainers back in 2022. They also told me that Lotus recommends using maintainers if you don't plan to drive the car for a couple of weeks. Evoras also came with them.

 

[Bilbao-Emira]

No tender for Spain.
I use my mother in law to push the car when out of battery

 

[Johnson]

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You’re kidding? You get half-priced cars AND a battery charger?? You Americans have really got it good…

 

[crestima]

You’re kidding? You get half-priced cars AND a battery charger?? You Americans have really got it good…

No Sir, we don't got it good nor bad rather, we don't got it at all. In my case, 2 1/2 years waiting for my Emira + Tender and I still don't got it
By the way, those free chargers are cheap and not really good. If it isn't a Ctek, it just isn't a Ctek.