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    2 days ago

    We wouldn’t be here without it though. It did a decent job popularizing EVs, much better than i-Miev for example.

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      2 days ago

      Would we though? The model S was only ~2 years away and that was the first EV people took seriously.

      The leaf was affordable, but depreciation hit so hard that buying one new was only for actually insane people. And the battery degradation was almost as bad as the price degradation so your meh range became even worse. In ideal conditions it was fine, but anything worse and it was not a good option.

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        I’m not a time traveller so I can’t say for sure, but cars lile Chevy Bolt and Renault Zoe wouldn’t be the same, since Leaf showed that there was demand for small BEV hatches and battery cooling systems