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So, owners what range are you getting ?

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by ELROY (Posted Sun, 07 Apr 2013 08:16:38 GMT)
TonyWilliams wrote:
ELROY wrote:
And how about my charge times from Turtle? Seems like I might only have about 19kWh useable battery pack. Car now has 4200 miles on it, little over 5 months old. 50-60 Temps. Usually 80% charging...


It's certainly entirely possible. My 2012 did a 10% reduction in about 5 months from the manufacturer date.

Concerning the range from 80% to LBW, just check out the range chart at 93% capacity and see if that is what you're seeing.


Yes...I think the 93% chart is pretty close to mine.
What upsets me is that I'm pretty sure this is about what my car has been getting since it was new.
There is a good 9-10 miles of range available between LBW-VLBW. I'm wondering if running it down to VLBW more often will accelerate the battery deterioration noticeably? Did more testing this morning:

4/06/13 80% 39.9 3.7 Low battery warning See below
4/06/13 80% 49.2 3.7 Very Low Battery warning See below
4/06/13 80% 51.9 3.7 2.7 mi past very low b/wrn

I really think that 39.9 miles is pretty short range when using the recommended 80% charging level to LBW.
Will charge tonight to see what the time is. But I am sure it will be just a tad below 5hrs again. I would assume as battery capacity is diminished the charge time will go down accordingly as the battery won't absorb as much of a charge?

Also, when cruising at 60mph on the fwy, the car will usually not reach 4mi/kWh. Is 3.7 mi/kWh normal?
As you can see, I am more concerned about real world mileage here then when I was solely trying to hypermile.

What are the chances the Nissan will do anything for this kind of degradation on a 5 month old LEAF? Would they ever consider getting me out of my 2012 into a 2013 for minimal expense to me? And if so...who would I contact? I'm sure if I go to the dealership, they will say its the Nissan "Normal". Kind of funny how I thought 100 miles would be attainable, and 73 miles would be easy before I took delivery of the car.



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