New life for old Nissan Leaf electric car: battery replacement and what it took

Rick and Linda SantAngelo with the 2011 Nissan Leaf at 96,000 milesThe 2018 Nissan Leaf will likely be revealed within the next three months, but more than 100,000 older Leaf electric cars are still silently in use on U.S. roads. Some of them, especially the lowest-range cars from the two earliest model years (2011 and 2012), have started to see significant battery capacity degradation. That was the case with...