Oils4AsphaultOnly
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cwerdna said:To be fair, Nissan in the '16 Leaf warranty booklet never listed any corresponding value(s) for any # of capacity bars vs. % of capacity remaining. So, they are unfortunately free to use whatever mapping they want.techchimp said:It is very troubling to me that Nissan is changing the value of a bar at their will.
http://www.electricvehiclewiki.com/Battery#Battery_Capacity_Behavior is in the '11 Leaf service manual. I do recall it being missing in the '12 and '13 service manual. Unclear why it was removed.
I think we all understand that it's legally okay for Nissan to do this, but morally it's reprehensible to have 8% of your battery life bars equate to a n 20% loss!
With the 24kwh batteries, Nissan had already burned a considerable amount of goodwill getting us to accept that the first bar represented a 15% loss, and 4 bars were actually under 70%. The new downward revision doesn't just remove the scab of the old wound, but digs out a fresh gash of customer trust that made me rescind recommending the leaf to people I know! Heck, I'm pretty sure I'm not the only who won't consider the leaf2 if it has the same "indicator bar" wording in its warranty. So it's really NOT FAIR, for both sides.