Asked many times, they still don’t seem to have a press one.

@@NobbyOnCars thanks picking mine up Saturday week, going from a gtx

What car do you have? What process did you follow for charging? How much AC charging did you do versus rapid charging? Considering manufacturers cover that level of degradation under warranty, did you seek to make a claim? Await your response.

​​@NobbyOnCars Nissan leaf Teckna 30 kwhr 6.6 charger in Arctic White, made in Sunderland and driven in the NE of England. Charged at home where I could manage a time charge on octopus go 4 hours overnight charge between 00.30 and 04.30, the leaf having no in car control for 80% cut off on a 7 kw home charger. Earlier leafs evidentally did I am told but Nissan deemed it unessessary. The car was not excessively rapid charged. Nissan takes away a certain portion of the leaf battery anyway, so you can't access it and don't fully charge the battery to the actual 100 % capacity, that was the design safeguard. The car is never left for long perids on the charger at an indicated 100%, like you would like to believe. If you read the Nissan warranty, it says that they will only return the capacity to 9 battery bars out of 12, before 8 years, only repairing or replacing cells, not a new battery and only at their discretion I.e. no warranty at all. Also you have to pay for a battery check before any claim, which like I said has no guarantee of being fulfilled before the 8 years were up. I had 8 battery bars just before the 8 years were up, which if I had made a claim and they honoured it, which they didn't have to ( at their discretion ) they would have only taken the capacity up 1 bar for a short period before it inevitably degraded again. So what was the point. Now down to 7 battery bars after the 8 years was up. EV's are not fit for purpose as I have said and also like I said, all lithium ion batteries degrade with time and use cycles. It is just what they do. I also have a 16 year old Mercedes E Class diesel, which has been brimmed constantly and filled at an energy rate many multiples faster than rapid charging the leaf and still has the 650 mile range I bought it with and still does 51 mpg at highway speeds, at a much cheaper cost than rapid charging an EV on a run. Like i said, I will never buy another EV again, only a fool would. This is my response pal, from a real EV consumer. I won't rub it in though and tell you about my other, other car, a 20 year old Mazda MX5, which also works perfectly well. If you insist on an EV's battery only being charged to 80%, then you can reduce the real world ranges for the Citroen proportionately, which makes it even worse, i.e., 116 and 88 miles respectively, which is atrocious. When I bought my EV, there was only a few on the road, the majority of EV's now are fairly new and haven't had the chance to show severe degradation. One thing for certain, you won't see a 20 year old EV.

@@stevezodiac491 interesting to hear your experience. I don’t think anyone is in the dark about lithium batteries degrading, I guess replacing the cells would’ve been better than nothing. I do think we’ll see 20 year old EVs but it will be car / brand specific. I’d be very surprised for example if there’s not 20 year old Teslas, Toyotas, BMWs, BYD etc Have a 20 year old MX-5 myself, great car. On the Citroen, which is not your car, the battery chemistry is quite different. LFP batteries will become more prevalent in cars. For every Merc story, there’s another one that gave endless trouble, that’s just the nature of cars. There’s plenty of Leafs still knocking around despite your experience of a bad one so it’s hard to generalise about these cars from one example.

Still won't buy another one. Fool me once blame you, fool me twice blame me.

I've owned and driven nearly every van, the world beater is the sprinter.

Later in the week

Yep ...Edd China is trying to sell his old channel.😆🙂

When you put it like that 🫣

cars in Ireland are just more expensive in general

Very hard to avoid!

Correct 👍🏻

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