LeftieBiker said:
We can think we will go thru 2 or 3 battery replacements in the next 100,000 miles but the reality is the replacement pack is likely to be much better than the OEM pack. Why do I say this? Cause there is only a small bit of evidence of this so far.
As already implied above, Nissan can replace our packs with "refurbished" 9 bar packs, and they have already built the plant to make them. I think your optimism is...premature.
Economics suggests you are being too pessimistic.
It costs money to swap a pack. If Nissan is really going to pay for 2 or 3 replacements they will not be happy. It is in Nissan's interest to improve the pack enough so they only rarely need to replace a pack once. Sure, might be more common in Dubai or similar.
If Nissan wanted to replace 4 bar lost packs with a 3 bar packs, they would be replacing a lot more packs, perhaps more than 4 times as many. The dealers would love it, as they bill Nissan for every warranty job they do.
And where is the source for all of those 3 bar lost packs? Where would Nissan get all of the 9 bar loser packs from?? I don't see where they could all come from... Do you?