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Originally Posted by teknomage2012
the Nissan leaf is warrantied to go 10 years or 100,000 miles on its battery and at the end of that warrantied period still retain 70% of its original range.
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If only that were true. Nissan did say things to that effect before selling the car but warrant terms don't match the hype.
Note the warranty on the battery has different time frames:
8 years, 100,000 miles covers the battery from catastrophic defects. If the car won't work at all due to total battery failure this is covered.
the capacity warranty is only 60 months (5 years) or 60,000 miles and is dependent on not a percentage but number of bars displayed by the dash after all software updates are done (must have P3227 update).
4 bars lost out of 12 takes you to 66.25% capacity not 70% even though the marketing team claimed 70% remaining in 10 years, the warranty is for 66.25% remaining in 5 years.
capacity bars
100% to 85% = 12 bars (15%)
85% to 78.75% = 11 bars (6.25%)
78.75% to 72.5% = 10 bars (6.25%)
72.5% to 66.25% = 9 bars (6.25%)
66.25% to 60% = 8 bars (6.25%)
60% to 53.75% = 7 bars (6.25%)
53.75% to 47.5% = 6 bars (6.25%)
47.5% to 41.25% = 5 bars (6.25%)
41.25% to 35% = 4 bars (6.25%)
35% to 28.75% = 3 bars (6.25%)
28.75% to 22.5% = 2 bars (6.25%)
22.5% to 16.25% = 1 bar (6.25%)
but we do expect to be able to buy cheaper battery upgrades someday down the road so I wouldn't bank on the $5000 number either.