Another 2011 LEAF capacity bar bites the dust in Tennessee.
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Lost my first capacity bar with 15686 miles on Wednesday, 2013-09-03.
Overall lifetime m/kWh is ~3.4. At ~21.5 kWh usable capacity, that is ~215 battery cycles. Clear that the 2011 / 2012 & maybe even the 2013 LEAF battery will not come anywhere close to 2000 cycles prior to dropping to <70% capacity.
Mostly charge to 80%, although for the last year since range dropped off some have typically charged to 100% shortly prior to departure on days with more mileage than 40 miles.
Lots of DCQC, probably 75+ times.
Only saw 7 battery temperature bars show up on two or three occasions while doing DCQC. One being a multiple DCQC day on the last one of the day on a 200 mile round trip to Knoxville and back. I did see 7 temperature bars for a week or two straight last summer when it hit 103F high several days in a row, and nighttime temperature did not drop enough to cool the battery back down to 6 bars for several days.
I knew the capacity was down at least 12% or so based on range fall off, thought the bar loss might wait till spring to happen.
Been meaning to get the ELM device and Android software, but haven't done it yet. So no hard data on what the LEAF thinks, other than the missing capacity bar saying 15% loss.
I have not had the capacity warranty / capacity gauge software change done yet.
If I get the equipment and have the software change done, might get the capacity bar back for a few days.
But everyone else has reported it relearns pretty soon and it soon goes away again.
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Most likely I'll end up in the large substantial majority group that never gets anything from Nissan on capacity warranty. Probably won't hit 4 capacity bar losses till around 7 years and 45,000 miles, and will be hoping capacity doesn't fall off a cliff after 70% and that the vehicle maintains some reasonable local use functionality till maybe 70,000 miles and 10 years of use.
Highly unlikely it will make 100,000 miles without a costly battery replacement. 100,000 miles is now typical for most ICE vehicles without any major repair.