Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:14 pm
I'm in the process of answering it now.
It asks what percentage of range reduction you expected before you bought the LEAF, in one year, five and ten years. Then asks what percentage you now expect in each time frame. To me, they should have included each year from one through ten years. Since very few owners have seen capacity reduction inside of one year, but many have seen it by 15 months. I said that I expected and I still expect to see no capacity reduction at one year and 20% at 5 years. But I didn't expect 15% reduction in 15 months, and I had no way to say that in this survey. If they'd asked the question for each year, one through ten, they would have received more accurate feedback from owners about expected capacity reduction.
It also asks about the DTE (Distance to Empty) gauge and whether you prefer one that is accurate at the moment, but goes up and down a lot depending on driving conditions, or whether you'd prefer one that is less accurate but uses driving data over a longer time period and mostly goes downward. I chose the latter. They also asked how much range reduction on the DTE we expect to see within the first five miles of driving. DUH: how about five miles, from an accurate meter?
Then questions about wireless charging, about power outages during wired charging, reasons for choice of LEAF. Unfortunately, there was no opportunity for free text entry of any other concerns that we might have.