by TimLee (Posted Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:02:09 GMT)
If the theory that Ghosn pushed the production of the LEAF forward against the input of the technical people is correct, I really don't understand why they have ever said much about anything to anyone at any time.
If they knew the claims of an average 80% capacity after five years, and 70% capacity after ten years were inaccurate; it certainly was truly stupid to make false statement (no matter how much they were couched in statements about being average and dependent on driver behaviour and conditions).
And it similarly seems really stupid to have talked to a small group of people in Phoenix this summer and given information about the upcoming "Hot" battery, which tacitly acknowledges that the battery design in the first 100,000 LEAFs is basically defective.
It appears that the desire to build market momentum initially, and to quell market dissatisfaction after capacity degradation was recognized to be a problem, may have resulted in quite a few truly stupid statements by Nissan.
DaveinOlyWA wrote:
... what info we were told about was argued vigorously and no doubt there are some that thought what little we were told was a mistake.
If the theory that Ghosn pushed the production of the LEAF forward against the input of the technical people is correct, I really don't understand why they have ever said much about anything to anyone at any time.
If they knew the claims of an average 80% capacity after five years, and 70% capacity after ten years were inaccurate; it certainly was truly stupid to make false statement (no matter how much they were couched in statements about being average and dependent on driver behaviour and conditions).
And it similarly seems really stupid to have talked to a small group of people in Phoenix this summer and given information about the upcoming "Hot" battery, which tacitly acknowledges that the battery design in the first 100,000 LEAFs is basically defective.
It appears that the desire to build market momentum initially, and to quell market dissatisfaction after capacity degradation was recognized to be a problem, may have resulted in quite a few truly stupid statements by Nissan.