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Former two time LEAF lease owner here. When I applied for the leases, NMAC passed on the full federal tax incentive to me in the form of a reduced price. Talked to a friend who is looking into a lease. He was told that NMAC will only pass on $3500 from the federal credit to the customer. Does...

363 gids is the most I've seen. Degraded packs are certainly a possibility with Nissan dealers. That's why I looked at the VIN when making my purchase decision in addition to Leaf spy data. I would only buy a Leaf that's been on the lot for less than 2 months.

I looked at the referenced page and came to a wildly different conclusion. First off, a 2016 SV is listed at $289/mo with 2400 drive off. Also, the numbers do not include tax license or other fees.

2016 SV 05/16 mfg date 82.34 Ahr 100% SOH 99.45% Hx 13 mV cell spread

Finally sat down and workedt he numbers with the dealer last night. VPP does not get you much, at least for a lease. Once taxes and fees are added this ends up being $283/mo, $2500 down for 24 months. This is a base SV 30 kWh.

There seems to be a decent inventory over here on the west coast.

By how much does VPP affect lease offers? I thought VPP was only for purchasing outright. Suppose the current offer is on the table: $2500 down, $250/mo for 24 months Would VPP participation lower those monthly payments at all?

What is that $5 K non-govt rebate?

It was my understanding that Hx represents % of original capacity. Can someone please clearly explain the difference between Hx and SOH?

What did you start out with? 6% loss seems steep for less than 10 K miles.

If paying cash is it reasonable to expect $8 K off the MSRP for a 2016 SV? I've seen this happen on the forums, but unsure if this is the exception rather than the rule.

Unfortunately, Nissan in their infinite wisdom gave us a charge start API but they do not have a charge stop API. It would be trivial to design a simple API call that kills charging at a given level.

OP here. Just a quick update. Things are not looking better. 263 gids 55.9 Ahr SOH 90% Hx 84.7% (what does that mean?)

Well, that's great for 21 k miles. Not so great for 500 miles. Maybe I just don't understand SOH. I did a quick charge and lots of driving today. Pack temps were upper 70s. SOH declined to 90% and was steady across a wide SOC range. I also hit LBW at 19% (50 gids) and VLBW at 9% (25 gids). This...

That's odd behavior. One would expect GIDs to be at their lowest value when the temps are cold since less energy can be extracted on a cold pack compared to a warm one. I'm puzzling over my new 2015 showing 268 gids/20.8 kWh at 100%. I thought maybe it was just that the pack isn't very warm (it...