My concern with the electric cars is simply this. I bought a new mobile phone six months ago and it mo longer holds anywhere near its full charge. This is down to the fact that no rechargeable battery has the ability to be recharged without losing some of its capacity over time. As for my phone, I will simply spend about a tenner on a replacement battery from China. What would you do with a par that has loads of batteries built in? Imagine the cost!
Yes, it's inevitable that the batteries degrade. It's not as bad as your phone though. The manufacturers are giving at least 5 years capacity warranty, some of them are giving 8 years so the worries are put aside for at least that long.
At the moment, nissan in the USA are offering replacement batteries at $5000. A few have been changed under warranty as some localities are so hot the batteries have prematurely aged. Nissan have developed their 'lizard' batteries to cope better with the heat.
I think that electric has a way to go yet to get the capacities we all want, and once we get reasonably priced cars that'll do 500 miles on a charge, then losing 25% of that after 10 years won't be so bad.
you'd be infinitely better off leasing or pcp-ing any of the available models today IMO. It's the only way to safeguard yourself against major financial losses if as yet unkown problems develop.
That's what I've done. I have zero intention of paying the gfv in 2 years time.
In fact, Nissan have ballsed right up and I reckon they'll be £3k the wrong way when the time comes, especially if the predicted 200 mile range model is out by then. Won't be my problem though.
To get back on topic and sorry for going so far off, I collected my panda earlier.
The word was there is a voltage sensor on the positive battery cable. The battery was tested on the bench, showing full charge and full capacity.
Testing the battery the other side of the cable was intermittently showing full charge, but only 50% capacity. The removed the offending sensor and found it corroded. Cleaned and replace, showing the same as the bench tested battery.
Updated the software as previous post mentioned.
They also replaced my leather gear knob as it was peeling after the recent hot weather.
Whilst I was there, I asked how much for my almost due 18k service, £189 all in. Bargain!
So top marks for J&J motors!