Fears of range anxiety have loomed over EVs since their inception, and people fears were validated courtesy of a pair unfortunate souls whose Nissan Leafs apparently died on them while driving. The drivers put their faith within the Leaf’s remaining range calculation, and were sorely disappointed when the automobile’s dash said they’d enough juice to move 10+ miles, however the batteries had other ideas. Seems, the Leaf needs your time to get to grasp you and your lead foot before it would accurately determine the boundaries of its own range. Nissan sent engineers out to study the cars and located no technical faults — but one driver reckons the cold sapped a few of the batteries’ power (a theory that Mini E drivers would disagree with ) and the automobile’s software didn’t factor that during when making its range estimates. Who’s in charge? We suspect that while there has been some user error, Nissan should rework the Leaf’s software to enhance range calculation — else we may well be talking concerning the death of EVs rather than internal combustion .
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