A few years ago, Nissan was the leader in electric cars. Now they may go bankrupt due to the electric car business.
Some of it is that other companies are just smarter. An American company that sees Democrats are going to mandate and subsidize electric cars, dictating a percentage of cars sold, wisely fire employees and cut lines to be the most profitable in the pool of money that government mandates. And some cars are just better.
Anyone who thinks electric cars perform well in the winter is either deluded or a paid influencer for the electric car industry. Some have really noticeable range loss, like the Tesla Model S, while the Leaf earns the title of bad all-around electric car in the winter because of longer charging time and range loss in the cold. You can guess that the analysis is by a law firm, in this case Vaziri Law Group Personal Injury Attorneys, because they also try to include number of accidents in the winter in their metric for performance. Perhaps 60 years ago Ralph Nader could dupe the public about a car the same way public relations gurus like Jeremy Rifkin convinced politically allied journalists that it takes a gallon of gas to create a pound of beef(1), but blaming the car for an accident is a stretch because there are so many confounders. Thanks to mandates and government forcing poor people to subsidize rich ones, there were 40,000,000 electric cars sold during the analysis period so it is not meaningful if Tesla Model 3 had 26 accidents in the winter, it is statistical noise.
Likewise, charging time for a Nissan Leaf may be no problem, since people who own electric cars drive less than they drove conventional cars due to range anxiety and probably charge overnight.
NOTE:
(1) If there is science, he hates it. When scientists discovered how to make insulin with using beef pancreases, Jeremy Rifkin organized protests against biologists, with his paid protesters singing, "We shall not be cloned." Senator Ted Kennedy, uncle of anti-science activist Robert F. Kennedy II, said that he wanted recombinant DNA technology controlled by government, and any academic who disagreed should lose their NIH grant - and get fined $10,000 per day. That is a lot of money even after President Biden caused inflation to skyrocket, you can imagine what a hit that was in 1975.
You can also see that Bob Kennedy II's anti-science apple grew from his family's tree.
