Electric cars-got to be a viable option now?
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Originally Posted by
Michael 38
I'm still not entirely convinced by electric I've got a hybrid so I can rely on the engine but I was talking to someone at work were we have a large fleet of Nissan electric vans and he said the ones that are 6 years old have already got marked battery degradation eg 130 miles when new now down to 80 miles
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Originally Posted by
Tooks
We shouldn’t be judging all electric vehicles batteries by those in ENV200 vans that are passively cooled and were pretty small to begin with.
That said, I’ve not got a downer on Nissan, some early Leafs that share your work vans battery tech being used as taxis have covered huge mileages without issue or much degradation.
My neighbour has an 8 year old Mk1 Leaf that has lost a bit of battery capacity but is still a useful vehicle that covers the majority of their journeys and is still a perfectly useable car.
E-nv200 vans with the 130 mile range are later 40kwhr vans whilst the earlier 24kwhr vans have an 80 mile range. As the larger battery wasn’t introduced until 2018, the six year old vans with an 80 mile range have a 24kwhr battery and have shown little to no degradation.
My 2015, 24kwhr van still has a similar range to the day I bought it at one year old.
The e-nv batteries are actively cooled and degrade far less than the same, passively cooled batteries in the Leaf.