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Originally Posted by bennelson
roflwaffle: Won't vehicles like the Leaf have a pretty good warranty? I would think they would need to so that people wouldn't have worries of the batteries. Of course the Leaf is going to have a 5 year battery lease.
I don't know what kind of warranty the VOLT is supposed to have.
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I dunno what kind of pack warranty the Leaf is going to have, and if it's leased I suppose it doesn't matter, but the Volt has a 10 year 150k miles warranty or an 8 year 100k mile warranty depending on which state it's sold in like any other hybrid AFAIK, which is why GM is only allowing the pack to be cycled shallowly even though it could probably do 70-80 miles new. That way the pack will have to get to 50% capacity before the 40 mile range starts to take a hit. Shallow cycles also allow more energy storage before the pack reaches a certain capacity level, at least for the
cells GM is using.