2026 Nissan Leaf offers 300-mile range for $30k

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Is it the alternate battery chemistry which made leaf "different" to the other cars or did they move to a more mainstream technology?

The early Leafs always had a fairly standard (for the time) Li-ion battery, but the corner they cut until a few years ago was to make it air-cooled rather than the liquid-cooled systems of most competitors. That made the earlier Leafs cheaper, but the batteries had far greater issues with longevity.

It's going to be interesting to see the LiFePO4 generation of EVs, which are going to be far less exciting to drive, but could potentially be rather cheap.

I knew something about it differed, I wasn't sure what it was. If they kept their cooling model, a lot of prior buyers may say "nah, that was a bad choice last time"

Although TBH I think the main thing about leaf was the range was dire. It suited people with zero range anxiety doing city runabout, and almost nothing else according to the rumour machine. (rumours are bad, but often grounded in some underlying issue)

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