Breaking in period

From the F-Pace manual

The vehicle is built using high-precision manufacturing methods, but the moving parts of the engine must still break-in, relative to each other. The process occurs mainly in the first 2 000 miles (3 000 km) of operation.

During this breaking-in period of 2 000 miles (3 000 km), observe and follow the instructions below:
Do not fully press the accelerator pedal during starts and normal driving.
Avoid high engine speeds (rpm) until the engine has reached its full operating temperature.
Avoid laboring the engine by operating the engine in too high a gear at low speeds.
Gradually increase engine and road speeds.
Avoid continuous operation at high engine speed and abrupt stops.
Avoid frequent cold starts followed by short-distance driving.
Preferably take longer trips.
Do not participate in track days, sports driving schools, or any similar events.

sflgator said:

"Do not participate in track days, sports driving schools, or any similar events." LOL! Like don't do what Jaguar did when they brought in hundreds of car journalists to Portugal to test drive the I-Pace on the Portimao Circuit Race Track a few months ago, haha.

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The only MFR that I know of who supports use of their cars on closed circuits is Chevrolet for their Camaro and Corvette models.
Porsche, Ferrari, Audi, Ford, Dodge, Tesla, all Japanese brands, all Korean brands all have wording that says they will void your warranty for tracking their cars. Cadillac takes repairs on a case-by-case basis. Subaru actually used social media and the SCCA website to collect lists of owners to withhold warranty work. They caught a lot of flak over that.

I had both a Camaro and a Corvette that were heavily tracked in box stock trim, and they would do warranty work even though I told them I AutoX'd and dragraced the cars. Even a $125,000 Chevrolet was covered (ZR1). Power steering broke on the Camaro, and the Corvette lost it's clutch hydraulics. A Cadillac lost it's supercharger drag racing (CTS-V) and they covered that too.

Cliff Notes: Do not volunteer info during service, or post under your real name on social media. The SCCA will allow you to exclude the car model if you wish. Do that.

To the best of my knowledge, electric motors require no break in from an engineering perspective. There are no rings to seat, no crush-type plain bearings, no valve seats, followers, cams, etc. Just roller bearings which do not require break in. Perhaps the reduction gear seating? Nobody has worried about normal gear seating in decades due to improvements in metallurgy and mfg'g practices, except hypoid gears that have a lot of heat losses and will get hotter during seating than they normally would. Even then, it's pretty rare. Hypoid gears aren't used in EVs.

Electronics and batteries decay from day one. They are the strongest they will ever be the first day. Hence why you burn-in electronics instead of break-in. You want to see if they will fail by overloading them when they are at their best.

This would be the same iGuide that says a MY21 has a SIM card slot and park assist amongst other nonsense seriously the documentation is so badly written it's laughable.

As I recall Nissan do not void the warranty for tracking the GTR they do however say it should be inspected afterwards due to its tendency to boil the gearbox oil. Although this is less of a problem than trying to take a Tesla around the Ring where it will just overheat about a third of the way round.

The question I always is is how can anyone know you have tracked the car? Provided you have been careful it's almost impossible to run even a high performance car at full power on a track because of the need to slow and break into the corners. In most respects even with perfect electronic telemetry it's impossible to tell a track day from fast road driving.