Actually..... I would! At a hefty discount that is... :mrgreen:LEAFfan said:Sounds like a good idea, just don't buy any used packs from Phoenix or any other hot climates. :evil:
Actually..... I would! At a hefty discount that is... :mrgreen:LEAFfan said:Sounds like a good idea, just don't buy any used packs from Phoenix or any other hot climates. :evil:
I see the difference - you have access to DCFC in places you want to go. It's bizarrely missing from San Francisco, Berkeley, and Santa Cruz. We have to haul out the gas car for those.DaveinOlyWA said:...now, DCFC. this allows us to get 30+ miles of range in 11 minutes ( http://daveinolywa.blogspot.com/2012/10/dcfc.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; . when charging the lower half of the pack...
Yup. 6.6 kW would make a huge practical difference at the moment. Once we've got DCQC in useful places, less so. But the places I tend to drive to are among the last that will get DCQC, and having double the L2 charge rate matters.DeaneG said:I see the difference - you have access to DCFC in places you want to go. It's bizarrely missing from San Francisco, Berkeley, and Santa Cruz. We have to haul out the gas car for those.DaveinOlyWA said:...now, DCFC. this allows us to get 30+ miles of range in 11 minutes ( http://daveinolywa.blogspot.com/2012/10/dcfc.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; . when charging the lower half of the pack...
jspearman said:Has anyone else in Phoenix been contacted by Nissan today? I posted it on the 11-bar thread, too, that I got a call from Nissan asking me to bring my car into the dealer next week. It sounded like they are contacting other owners, too, and are flying in a technician. She acknowledged that I had called in to complain about my loss and was apologetic. Said asked about charging habits, number of miles, quick charging (she told me not to QC more than once a week), and asked me if we were happy with the car. I said that we love our Leaf, but that we worry about the degradation too much to make it a pleasurable ownership experience.
She said that she couldn't promise what they would do, but that they would check out the car and perhaps replace some of the battery modules. That took me by surprise. I've been on the fence about what to do with our Leaf, but I'm willing to wait and see what happens now. I plan to talk with them about some kind of lease conversion when I meet with them, since I know the batteries will take another hit next summer. I can do a 2-year lease, but I no longer want to own.
Probably delusional I don't think connecting 12 cells, around 40 volts, to the main pack in parallel, would work out too welledward said:Maybe I'm delusional, but how's that for an idea?
JRP3 said:Probably delusional I don't think connecting 12 cells, around 40 volts, to the main pack in parallel, would work out too welledward said:Maybe I'm delusional, but how's that for an idea?
...supplemental lithium-ion battery...
...the leafhack involves adding its own 4 kilowatt-hour, 8 kWh, or 12 kWh, 48-volt lithium-phosphate battery pack, charger and high-voltage DC-to-DC converter into the trunk of a stock leaf.
Originally designed by the company to convert regular Toyota Prius hybrids into plug-in hybrids, the system’s DC-to-DC converter then takes 48-volts from the supplemental battery pack and steps the voltage up to 390-volts...
YES! :mrgreen: exactly what I had in mind.TEG said:http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1078684_leafhacking-battery-mod-gives-extra-range-but-at-what-cost
GE WattStation* and Nissan LEAF** Update
Nissan and GE have completed their investigation into the instances of Nissan LEAFs experiencing on-board charging (OBC) issues when using certain EV chargers. Nissan has traced the root cause of the issue to the LEAFs OBC software that can allow damage to occur to its OBC components while using certain chargers and in certain instances, such as when a brief under voltage or blackout condition occurs. Nissan is working to address this issue as quickly as possible, and in the meantime is advising customers to avoid charging during times when brownouts or momentary power dips may be likely, such as during electrical storms or high power usage on the grid.
* GE and WATTSTATION are trademarks of the General Electric Company
** NISSAN and LEAF are trademarks of Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
mkjayakumar said:Edward's point makes sense, that it is more economical to add incremental cells boosting capacity on your now-depleted 16kWh battery to 21 kWh, rather than removing the current one and adding a new 21 kWh pack. If your objective is to get back to the full capacity as when it was new, then adding cells is cheaper than replacing the whole battery.
Only concern is the added weight..
DaveinOlyWA said:speaking for me only; i bought the LEAF by calculating its worth to my needs with a 30% degraded range. iow, with 7 KWh missing. or only having 53 miles (not sure how i arrived at that figure but this was two years ago... but seems about right) of range in good driving conditions meaning likely to have 45 in bad (a bit of underestimation here on winter effects) driving conditions.
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No you haven't. You should stop rambling about this matter even if you think it's a "joke". Nissan says there's no price yet, Chelsea doesn't have one, and nobody else here is claiming to have seen one except you.EVDRIVER said:I have seen the pack price, retail and wholesale and it is remarkably low. Dealer cost must be laughable in comparison to what people are guessing.
kcarmich said:I love my LEAF, but hate the blasted Accept/Deny button press everytime I get into my car. We should hold a blackout carwings event, try to get as many LEAF owners to all deny carwings T&C all starting the same day. We could do it to start on Black Friday? Anybody else interested?
GroundLoop said:I haven't Accepted for most of 2012. It's easier (and cleaner on the screen) to hit the Map button instead.
Nissan can have my Carwings data when they give me a way to skip this query; simple as that.
TomT said:Someone please explain to me why pressing one button on the steering wheel is so much less of an issue and inconvenience than pressing one button on a screen?
Of all the issues and problems the Leaf has, this one is not even in the noise for me...
GroundLoop said:I haven't Accepted for most of 2012. It's easier (and cleaner on the screen) to hit the Map button instead.
Nissan can have my Carwings data when they give me a way to skip this query; simple as that.
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