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Nissan (and other automakers) have a duty to the entire EV community to get to the bottom of any hint of battery bother, and to make sure that the facts are made known.
duty to the entire EV community to get to the bottom of any hint of battery bother, and to make sure that the facts are made known. Has it done so? You’ll have to decide for yourself, after reading the whole story. It began in May, when a few LEAF owners in Arizona and other Sunbelt states started posting on forums that, according to their cars’ instruments, their batteries had lost substantial amounts of capacity, even though they were still fairly new. The LEAF has a dashboard display that shows not only the battery’s current state of charge, but its overall capac-
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