Very early into its lifecycle, Nissan has already got problems with the new Nissan Leaf, which has been refusing to restart once it’s stopped. Not restarting is not exactly a safety issue – as long as you can actually get your new Nissan Leaf to start in the first place, little chance it will pack up on you mid-journey (unless you run out of battery power).
It appears that the problem lurks deep in the programming for the air conditioning system and Nissan has developed a fix, which will mean reprogramming the vehicle control module.
A plus for Nissan Leaf owners is the Leaf’s built in messaging centre, which allows Nissan to send notification to all Leaf owners (a bit more than 5 000 worldwide) of the issue, inviting them in for a quick interface with a Nissan techno-geek and a laptop (no spanners required).
It’s an issue that shouldn’t have happened in the first place, but hats off to Nissan for addressing it so quickly.
