Vehicle
Nissan Leaf
The first mass-market battery electric, and still one of the most numerous — so it is the electric car most likely to be old enough for battery degradation to be the actual complaint. Two facts shape its diagnosis and both are unusual. The first-generation pack is passively cooled, with no thermal management circuit at all, which is why hot-climate cars degrade faster and why there is no coolant loop to fault. And it uses CHAdeMO rather than CCS for rapid charging, so a charging complaint may be an infrastructure question rather than a vehicle one.
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Generations
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ZE0 2010–2017
A passively cooled pack with no thermal management circuit — hot-climate degradation is expected behaviour, not a fault.
- Body styles
- Hatchback
- Platform
- Nissan ZE0
- Engines
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- 24 kWh electric — electric · 80 kW (107 hp)
- 30 kWh electric — electric · 80 kW (107 hp)
- Transmissions
- Single-speed reduction
- Drivetrain
- Front-wheel drive
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ZE1 2017–present
Larger packs and e-Pedal one-pedal driving; still passively cooled and still CHAdeMO, so both earlier constraints carry over.
- Body styles
- Hatchback
- Platform
- Nissan ZE1
- Engines
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- 40 kWh electric — electric · 110 kW (147 hp) · 320 Nm (236 lb-ft)
- 62 kWh electric — electric · 160 kW (215 hp) · 340 Nm (251 lb-ft) · Leaf e+
- Transmissions
- Single-speed reduction · Single-speed fixed
- Drivetrain
- Front-wheel drive
Service information
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