Nissan Feeling The Heat For Degrading Leaf Batteries In Arizona

CBS 5 – KPHO While Arizona is battling its wildfires, Nissan is having its hands full dousing the flames of Leaf owners in the Grand Canyon state. There is a rash of reports about degrading batteries, and owners blame the scorching heat. "When I first purchased the vehicle, I could drive to and from work on a single charge, approximately 90 miles round trip," a Leaf owner, still an ardent fan of the car, told the Phoenix CBS affiliate. "Now I can drive approximately 44 miles on this without having to stop and charge." A TTAC reader reports: "I personally was a 2011 LEAF owner in Phoenix. I lost a battery capacity bar at 10-1/2 months and 10,200 miles. I ended up selling the car out of concern about the battery. I then leased another 2012 LEAF for 2 years to keep driving gas free without the battery liability." Owners have banded together at the Mynissanleaf.com forum, where the thread stood at 162 pages at the time of this typing. From reading the posts, owners still seem to stand behind the cars they believe in, but they "feel somewhat abandoned by the company they've supported," as CBS reports. Nissan has made loaners available to affected owners, and will dispatched  half a dozen cars to Casa Grande to conduct extensive testing starting next week. Contacted by TTAC, Nissan HQ in Yokohama had been unaware on Thursday, started looking into the matter on Friday, and asked on Saturday to wait for the outcome of their investigation. from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com

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