Where to start?
First of all, there’s another article on HN today about how teslas wheels fall off, and (in other cars) the suspension collapses (in one case with 115 miles on the odometer).
The point of the article isn’t that the cars have problems though. The issue is that it is official company policy to blame the customer and refuse to honor the warranty. (The 115 mile suspension failure case’s owner paid out of pocket to replace the suspension, then immediately sold it).
Second, I have a Ram pickup that’s one year older than this leaf. I can’t even get oem brake components for it anymore.
Third, generalizing from early Leafs to the rest of the industry is laughable. They were the only major manufacturer that shipped without active battery management, which was a disaster. There are a ton of old leafs with dead batteries, and plenty of people trying to repair and flip them (or get a deal), so it is unsurprising that nissan is out of obsolete replacement parts.
Slightly newer nissans and pretty much every other brand will have much better battery life, so there’s no real environmental or economic reason to repair the old ones (unless you replace the power train…)
In fact, this car is new enough, that if sold today and eligible for the federal EV rebate in the US, they would have to replace the battery for free. No one is selling cars like this old leaf in the US today.
First of all, there’s another article on HN today about how teslas wheels fall off, and (in other cars) the suspension collapses (in one case with 115 miles on the odometer).
The point of the article isn’t that the cars have problems though. The issue is that it is official company policy to blame the customer and refuse to honor the warranty. (The 115 mile suspension failure case’s owner paid out of pocket to replace the suspension, then immediately sold it).
Second, I have a Ram pickup that’s one year older than this leaf. I can’t even get oem brake components for it anymore.
Third, generalizing from early Leafs to the rest of the industry is laughable. They were the only major manufacturer that shipped without active battery management, which was a disaster. There are a ton of old leafs with dead batteries, and plenty of people trying to repair and flip them (or get a deal), so it is unsurprising that nissan is out of obsolete replacement parts.
Slightly newer nissans and pretty much every other brand will have much better battery life, so there’s no real environmental or economic reason to repair the old ones (unless you replace the power train…)
In fact, this car is new enough, that if sold today and eligible for the federal EV rebate in the US, they would have to replace the battery for free. No one is selling cars like this old leaf in the US today.