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by dijit 138 days ago
You’d be proving me wrong with this fact if the data showed that they’re moving more units because of this marketing.

As it stands the Nissan Leaf is an outlier only in Norway, where it was practically a free car due to subsidies, otherwise their growth is pretty much in line with other EVs.
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IrishTechie 138 days ago
I was giving the Leaf as an example of a worse warranty offering from 15 years ago sorry. Toyota now have the longer warranty compared to all the others, and even as a fairly poor EV they’re hugely popular with taxi drivers etc.

I’m a bit EV obsessed so spend a lot of time answering questions about them online, the longer warranty is 100% impacting buying choices.

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olalonde 138 days ago
This seems like something EV buyers would care about. If they don't, it raises the question of why a solution is needed at all.
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dijit 138 days ago
“I’ll sell my car before it becomes an issue” - common statement I’ve heard.

It needs to be fixed, because aside from someone being left with the economic bag of disposing of the vehicle, it is actually an environmental issue to build these batteries.

Just not as bad of an issue as running ICE cars for the same period of time.

People tend not to think more than a certain amount of time away for some reason.

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