Oh, Chelsea, one more thing. Poeple have been asking how they can get a useful battery check on used cars, but I'd like you to ask what steps Nissan will take to better inform their dealers as to proper battery charging and storage (i.e. in shade) while sitting on the lot, and any incentives/penalties to enforce this behavior.
I'm not sure how to solve this issue. It's clear that there are many dealers who believe that keeping the car charged to 100% all the time even when it's just sitting on the lot is best practice. There seems little doubt that this has caused some new Leafs in hot locations to be sold with batteries already suffering significant degradation. Even for those dealers who know or learn that this is bad, I'm not sure how Nissan could enforce this, because from the dealer's perspective it's a sales advantage to have a customer jump in the car and have it show i's maximum range, instead of telling them 'that's just partial range, you'll have to wait a bit so we can charge the car fully if you want to see it's maximum range." The dealers don't care if they've damaged the battery by keeping it topped up, because they aren't going to suffer the consequences; only the customer and Nissan will.
The only stick Nissan has that I can see, and it's a somewhat expensive one, is to require a battery inspection showing actual capacity, charging frequency and level, battery temps etc., with copies provided to the customer and Nissan, as a pre-condition of any sale/lease, and no more than two days prior. Any 'bad charging practices' and more than minimal degradation would result in the dealer forfeiting some holdback to Nissan, which I'd suggest they split 50-50 with the customer. And of course, the customer could decline to buy any car if the degradation was beyond some nominal amount (say 1-2%).