Nubo said:
I find it disturbing that the S will have a lesser battery capacity warranty. That implies Nissan expects to realize a significant savings, and therefore that they expect a significant percentage of S owners to fall below the capacity threshold between 60,000 and 100,000 miles. If that is not their expectation then they are idiots for constructing the warranty coverage in such a way as to imply it.
One might argue that Nissan, on a business level, decided to apply the warranty to the 24kWh pack and not to the model year. The 2016 S is just a means for Nissan to have a model to put the 24kWh pack into, since they have to make them anyway for warranty claims.