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2016 Nissan Leaf EV owner says cost of battery replacement may not be worth investment (globalnews.ca)

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Neil Turner says his EV was driving well until this past winter during a cold snap. He says the battery range began to drop a kilometre a second.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This is going to be an increasingly big problem. Someone always pops in to let me know that battery prices are coming down, but they're never going to be cheap enough for the people that need used cars. The person buying a $10k for a used leaf can't afford an inevitable $11k battery.

[–] BlameThePeacock 3 points 5 days ago

Its really not, because a) not many 2016 Nissan leafs actually exist, and b) the early leaf batteries were absolutely garbage compared to any battery made in 2019 or later. They were air cooled and tiny to begin with, both of which led to much faster range degradation than were seeing with modern EV batteries. These new batteries are hitting multi hundred thousand miles without losing more than 10% of their almost 300 mile base range.

I'm personally at 100kkm on my 2021 kia ev, and it hasn't lost any noticeable range at all, I'm still getting sticker advertised range in the winter, and well over sticker in the summer.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere 0 points 5 days ago

This isn’t an EV problem, it’s an early Leaf problem.