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Tom_O

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Idk if this is still relevant, but Nissan is the only car company that doesn't keep their batteries cool. This is causing the batteries to die faster than other cars. People who own Nissan cars are complaining about it, but Nissan says they won't fix it. I will never buy a Nissan car again.
 
Yeah, I’ve heard that too. I don't know why they haven’t addressed it yet. After all, battery longevity is the biggest deal for EV owners. My friend had to replace his Leaf's battery way sooner than expected, and it wasn’t cheap. If they don’t fix this, I wouldn’t be surprised if they lose more customers in the long run.
 
Did you buy a LEAF and did you have battery issues? I have talked to quite a few owners and haven’t met one that has had battery issues. I believe there are problems but not nearly as common as the internet would make it seem. I have a BMW motorcycle and they had issues with failing final drives but again not as common as the internet makes it seems, my 2012 R1200RT has 160,000 trouble free kilometres 🤷🏼‍♂️. My 2019 LEAF just passed 75,000 km and the range is about the same as it was when new.
 
Idk if this is still relevant, but Nissan is the only car company that doesn't keep their batteries cool. This is causing the batteries to die faster than other cars. People who own Nissan cars are complaining about it, but Nissan says they won't fix it. I will never buy a Nissan car again.
Strange that you come onto this forum, where we discuss Leaf topics from owners who have had their vehicles for many happy years, including me and make one post about your dissatisfaction with a well known design decision by Nissan. What's the point?
 
Repairable, try removeing a single cell from a Tesla! The Leaf battery can be disassembled to its cell level, something not possible with other designs.
To use liquid cooling, the cells have to be "potted" so the cooling medium doesn't short the cells.
You can push them harder, but you can't repair them if you have a bad cell.
 
Yes, the Leaf battery is air cooled, which was designed to keep the cost down when introduced 12 years ago (when a Tesla was selling for $80K USD and a Leaf for less than half that). Times have changed and technology has improved, and now Nissan has a liquid cooled EV. While the Leaf batteries degrade faster than liquid cooled ones, the car still holds up as pretty reliable.
 
Repairable, try removeing a single cell from a Tesla! The Leaf battery can be disassembled to its cell level, something not possible with other designs.
To use liquid cooling, the cells have to be "potted" so the cooling medium doesn't short the cells.
You can push them harder, but you can't repair them if you have a bad cell.
Bolt has liquid cooled batteries but doesn't use the crappy non-repairable designs that Tesla does.

I haven't watched most of , but you can skip to various points to speed up playback.
 
Same guy did another video of the Leaf battery as well.
But thank you for the clarification, I have seen videos of Tesla packs, but had not of the Bolt.
That said Bolt had their own battery problems.
I will agree that cooling the battery is the way to go, but not at the expense of serviceability, glad the Bolt is serviceable.
We have heard of cooled battery upgrades for the Leaf, that always are "a few years in future" that never seam to materialize.
 
Price. For various reasons (non-liquid cooled battery included), used Leaf cars are the cheapest EVs we can get our hands on here at the moment. I can't affort anything else than two LEAF in a year ;)
 
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