Recent content by knightmb

It's true for "straight line" rolling resistance when you look at all 4 tires, but the fronts are the ones that will produce the most rolling resistance if you drive on anything other than a straight line. It's not wrong to say it won't change in the rear, technically speaking, but the rear...

Looks good so far, but not enough miles to really say just yet about the lifetime health of the battery. The SOH is something that can go up and down over the life of the Leaf, so we always warn not to get too obsessed with watching the values change daily as a predictor of battery life or...

I see this come up a lot here, but any year model 2020 and older are the only ones left where you can disable the sounds via LeafSpy. For 2021 and newer, you can't disconnect the speakers without throwing a dash code, so the next best thing is to just plug up the speakers to muffle their sound...

Swap them (both) to the rear, inflate them 44 PSI cold (if less than the rated max) to help minimize rolling resistance, see if that makes up for it. Since the Leaf is a front wheel drive EV, all the wear and resistance is concentrated towards the front (driving wheels, steering wheels, stopping...

A Gen 1 Leaf with +99% SOH and a failed batch of cells tells me the dealership has done a BMS reset and you can expect bars to drop over the next few months of driving, perhaps faster since it's already registered 1 bar lost. I would steer clear of this Leaf as the battery range is being hurt by...

Don't feel bad, same problem in the USA. Some years back, a guy posted up on FB about his 40 kWh Leaf that he would run in the "red" temperature bars every day, all day (Lots of QC + hard driving) in some AZ heat and complained it lost a bar and range. We were all surprised the battery survived...

More than likely, they didn't real the manual and most people are not honest about how they treat their vehicles. Not saying, they did or they didn't do any vehicle research, but the life of any vehicle being driven as a Taxi destroys gas and EV vehicles alike, so it's not surprising to hear...

Just my experience, my Leaf has over +90K miles (as does my wife's 2018 Leaf) and the only maintenance done has been tire replacements and windshield wiper fluid refills. To be fair, my 2020 had the Rear Window Defroster quit working, which was way out of the warranty, but was easy to fix as the...

Nope, not at all. The warranty applies no matter what the dealership says. There are limits of course, like if the battery was dragging on the ground and you drove it until the battery caught on fire or something silly like that. 🤨 But there is nothing on the Leaf that is like an "oil change"...

It can you show you everything, codes included (if any are stored) along with real-time information about the battery, power usage, etc. I think you need the Pro version to get the codes stuff though, but the free version will show the basic battery info about the cells which might be more...

My first guess is a failed cell somewhere. You are going to need LeafSpy to find that out. The dealerships are random, some are great and helpful. Others are complete waste of time because they either don't have a real Leaf tech or just don't care. Sounds like you might have the latter. 12 of 12...

Oh, then I can help with that using my own trailer experience. If the Leaf profile is high enough to streamline the air over the trailer and what you have on it, expect good results, around 20% to 25% reduction in range. If the trailer is acting like a parachute because you have things literally...

That's because they missed the obvious connection of the QC station itself. Everyone thinks that if a QC station is advertised as 100 kW that it magically is identical to all other networks and stations. The reality is; it is not. 😲 I've already tested and documented this exact issue years ago...

Experience trumps logic on this one. It is possible, I have proof. What you are getting incorrect is that it can't keep this level of power for very long because as the battery heats up and the SOC climbs, it will have to taper down at some point. So on the technical point, the Leaf CAN NOT...

I can give context, this is my Leaf. This picture was taken at a 500V ChaDeMo station. The first issue is the time estimates are wrong because the Leaf does not show charge times less than 5 minutes, even if only 1 second remains before the next "mark" is reached. Long standing bug in the Leaf...