theothertom said:Nissan is being stubborn on the battery management thing. Looks like they would admit their mistake and fix it. Long term, that's going to continue to hurt them. Hopefully they are working on a larger battery pack (liquid cooled) to compete with VW and BMW i the next couple of years.
Dooglas said:Up front rumors suggested an air-cooled active cooling system, but not liquid cooling. The two above summaries don't seem to address this.
OrientExpress said:Either that, or they know more than most of the critics. There is no comparison of today's LEAF reliability and value with the 2011 LEAF. Just reading the enthusiasts blogs show that the issues with the early cars have been addressed. Lots of opinions but no issues.
For fun, I tabulated the 2018 LEAF sales world-wide from Nissan's sales reports, and came up with a surprising number. Of course all of these cars batteries are passively thermal managed, but that does not seem to be an issue:
Let's look at the USOrientExpress said:Not too shabby
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