Nissan has received complaints from some owners that its Leaf electric car on occasion fails to start.
The company said it is looking into the exact cause of the potential problem and has traced it back to the air conditioning unit. Nissan is investigating whether the glitch was in a certain component or the programming.
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Spokesman Toshitake Inoshita said Nissan plans no immediate recall since the issue does not affect safety but will decide how to proceed after identifying the source of the problem.
He added that the issue has been reported in the US and Japan, although he did not have an exact figure for the number of complaints.
Nissan launched the Leaf in Japan and the US in December and had sold more than 3,300 units in Japan as of February and delivered another 452 in the United States to the end of March.
The EV is due to go on sale in Europe later this year.
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By GlobalDataProduction at Nissan’s Oppama plant south of Tokyo, where the Leaf is made, resumed on Monday on a normal basis – from supplier-delivered parts – for the first time in a month. It was halted by the earthquake that rocked northeast Japan on 11 March.
