I agree with almost all you said.
On 06/04/2014 12:46 PM, Lee Hart via EV wrote:
That said, what isn't included here is the replacement of the EV's
costly
battery, which costs anywhere between $12,000 and $13,000
BZZZZZT!!! First, the battery is warranted for 8 years and 100k miles.
It won't cost a cent to replace if it fails before then. Second, it is
extremely unlikely that it will cost that much to replace the battery
in an 8-year-old Leaf, as there will be plenty of sources of used one.
I bought my Leaf with no great battery concern. I had the attitude that
"Nissan must know what they're doing". I expected the battery to last
5+ years at which time I expected there would be cheaper, better, and
higher capacity replacement batteries available. After two years, I was
extremely disappointed to find that the Leaf battery would no longer
carry me where I needed to go. Though my range decreased over 30%,
Nissan refused to fix it, saying "the battery is fine". With the Leaf's
extremely crappy instrumentation, there is no quantitative measure of
capacity available to the Leaf driver. So, Nissan is able to make any
capacity judgment they wish. If they wish to avoid their warranty
obligations, they can. And do.
_______________________________________________
UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub
http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
