johnsnownw
Elio Addict
OK, I admit that I choose to stay blissfully ignorant of many of the intricacies of EVs simply because I like gas powered vehicles. Add to that the many conversations about battery replacement costs and range anxiety and I found that the articles I posted above seemed to support what I've been hearing as well as continue to enforce the notion in my brain that I'm all gas all the way.
Additionally, given the information from the autoblog article I'm having trouble understanding johnsownw response:
The article talks clearly about how early leaf and tesla vehicles had significant issues with degradation including lawsuits. Did Nissan and Tesla not use Li-Ion technologies and have since changed to Li-Ion such that this is no longer a problem?
Nissan opted to not cool their batteries, which caused the premature degradation.
As for Tesla, there has not been widespread degradation issues...even the one mentioned in the article you cited was a misunderstanding of the amount, and also related to an issue at the pack level, not cell level.