• Electric car buyers claim they were misled by Nissan #RapidGate
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-44575399 Owners of Nissan's new electric Leaf say they were given misleading information about the car before buying it. They say charging the Leaf can take three times longer than claimed on Nissan's website. ... The Advertising Standards Authority is now considering whether to launch an investigation into the issue. As many as 2,600 new Leafs have been sold in the UK, and it was named Electric Car of the Year for 2018 by What Car? magazine. But drivers attempting longer journeys in the Leaf have found themselves spending up to two and a half hours at motorway service stations to recharge. Last year, Nissan told prospective buyers that using so-called rapid chargers should only take 40 minutes "in moderate driving conditions" for an 80% charge. They subsequently changed that to between 40 and 60 minutes. Nissan really screwed up here. They have been one of the leading manufacturers for EVs, but this has made the community lose a lot of goodwill with them. How they have handled it is just terrible. I had one for a few days this week, and encountered the issue on my first rapid charge due to the car sitting in the sun all day. Also important to point out this only applies to the 40 kWh Leaf. The older ones are great cars.
Too bad the older ones look like ARSE The new Leaf looks so much nicer.
I like the idea of the Leaf, but Nissan's execution is really poor. They're not super reliable cars in the long term and it doesn't make enough sense for me to buy one since I would recoup my gas costs in like 15 years.
The only issue with the Leaf is the battery not having any cooling, so the battery degrades far faster than other EVs, which seems to be more of an age issue than a mileage issue. It's probably one of the most reliable cars outside of that. Apparently next year's model has battery cooling.
Speaking of the cooling, most times if a battery is hot you don't pump as much current into it as fast. I did remember reading a story of someone doing a road trip and their leaf couldn't charge as fast the longer they drove due to the heat. Once they left the car to cool down for a hour or so the charging went back to 30-40minutes. If you use the car as a normal city car I'd imagine it wouldn't be a big deal. The new leaf does look nice though. I'd like my next car to be an EV.
Ioniq is probably a better buy atm
just immerse the car in water when charging, bam problem solved
Electric version has a 8 - 12 month waiting list in the UK though AFAIK.
Distilled water :science:
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