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My Nissan Leaf battery, which everyone on Reddit with an electric car they bought yesterday is very sure will die any minute, has yet to lose any of its range after 6 years and 50k miles.
Pros: no range loss
Vehicle:
Nissan Leaf
Mileage: 80467 km
My 2015 Leaf has 148k on it and still drives like new. The battery is down to about 85% but this is pretty old lithium tech with very early thermal controls on it.
Pros: drives like new, low maintenance
Cons: battery down to 85%
Vehicle:
Nissan Leaf
Mileage: 148000 km
My EV is 8 this year. I've not noticed a drop in range over that time, but I'll find out when it goes in for its last battery health check before the warranty expires.
Pros: no drop in range
We had a 2015 Nissan Leaf EV back in 2018. Fun little car but it only has an 80 mile range.
Pros: fun little car
Cons: limited range
Vehicle:
Nissan Leaf
My battery conked out at the normal time after 6 years. But it still didn’t give me any warning that it was dying. 2019 Mazda 3 here
Pros: lasted 6 years
Cons: no warning before dying
Vehicle:
Mazda 3
Worst part about Mazda cars - battery can silently die on you. Instead once you're ~3 years in you're gambling every time you go for a drive.
Cons: silently dies, unreliable after 3 years
Vehicle:
Mazda
OEM batteries are crap, replace it with something better, preferably an EFB one. Also, a healthy battery should withstand that time and even more, so yours was definitely at its end.
Cons: OEM batteries are crap, short lifespan
Vehicle:
Mazda 3
My car was sitting in parking lot with engine OFF and ignition ON - Android Auto was working and headlights/interior lights -> after about 15min music stops playing and I thought okay it's energy saver mode let me start engine.
But NOPE, there were some error messages, and engine couldn't start - battery was DEAD, I read battery are shit on new Mazdas and didn't want to deal with it myself and get it towed because of warranty.
Cons: battery dead quickly, no warning
Vehicle:
Mazda
Mileage: 45000 km
Mazda uses cheap batteries, I have had to swap them on my last two CX5s
Cons: cheap quality, frequent replacement
Vehicle:
Mazda
My cx30’s 2023 battery died as I was coming to a stop sign. As I was rolling to the stop sign my breaks failed hit the car Infront of me and the could not get my car to start.
Cons: catastrophic failure, died unexpectedly
Vehicle:
Mazda
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