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Can confirm, worked at a battery store for a few years throughout college. Audis for some reason always lasted much longer than any other car brand.
My S4 battery is going on 6 years and it pops off like a brand new battery in Minnesota weather.
Pros: lasts much longer
Vehicle:
Audi S4
Crappy "genuine VW battery/parts" for you. Any of my other OEM Japanese car batteries lasted much longer. My 2011 Nissan 370z OEM battery lasted 7 years. It could've probably gone even longer if not for without driving it for long during the covid pandemic.
Pros: long lifespan
Cons: crappy quality
Vehicle:
Nissan
Put one in my Frontier last winter, and had more consistent starts. Cost half of Nissan dealership with higer CCA.
Pros: consistent starts, higher CCA
Based on these comments, I definitely replaced my battery last year wrong. I just ripped out the old one and slapped in the new one. I didn\u2019t code anything haha
Pros: replaced battery
Cons: didn't code
Vehicle:
Audi S4
Sounds about right for a dealership, just had my battery replaced at a euro shop and it was 448 total
Pros: battery replaced
Cons: expensive
Vehicle:
Audi S3
San Antonio Leaf driver here, a Leaf is fine in Texas as long as you don't want to do road trips (battery heating gets to be an issue around 250 miles on a 40kWh on the interstate). This sub is overwhelmingly negative on the Leaf, despite it being a good local commuter.
Pros: fine for local commuter
Cons: battery heating on road trips
Vehicle:
Nissan Leaf
I'm in central Texas and the Leaf does just fine for in city driving. The batteries run hotter than a liquid cooled battery does of course but they are capable of operating at Texas summer temperatures. Where they struggle is on long highway trips. High speeds mean more load on the battery which also means more heat and more likely to have the car limit power due to battery temps. I have noticed that Leafs in Texas do tend to show more battery degradation and less capacity than leafs that are in cooler climate.
Pros: fine for city driving
Cons: struggles on highway, more degradation
Vehicle:
Nissan Leaf
We're having the same issue on our 22 Pathfinder. We're on our second battery. The first was replaced under warranty in January '24 after failing and stranding my wife out of town in the cold. It took 6 hours of testing before they would approve replacement.
Cons: failed in the cold
Vehicle:
Nissan Pathfinder
they do suffer more with battery degredation due to crap thermal management (older models).
Cons: more battery degradation, crap thermal management
Vehicle:
Nissan Leaf
Our other car, the 2016 Leaf, kinda is the embodiment of all the negative talking points you hear about, since it's an older EV: It uses an outdated & slower charging standard, has a small battery, and has significant battery degradation (29%) since Nissan decided, in their infinite wisdom, to not give the Leaf a coolant loop for the batteries. (Heat is the biggest killer for EV batteries).
Cons: significant battery degradation, no battery coolant loop, outdated charging standard, small battery
Vehicle:
Nissan Leaf
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