2011 Leaf Owner
#1420 - 35,500 miles, SoCal original car per Carfax
Bought less than Two years ago from Nissan Dealership
$1600 Extended Service Contract (in writing from Dealer) 84 month extension, extended to 114,000 miles dealer repeats that it applies to battery replacement.
Capacity problems after 10 months.
Currently at 9 bars
What is the efficiency of the onboard charger at 240 volts? If 17.03 kWh is metered at the wall using a California engineer calibrated grade meter using level 2 at 240 volts at 80 degrees outdoors on sunny California day, how much charge goes to the battery? (Starting at 1/4 mile driven past second low battery warning up to 100% full charge). The third-party California Consumer Affairs licensed engineer testing used 0.85 for energy losses for the onboard charging system in their preliminary report. They based their initial findings strictly using kWh's. This is to avoid going into the cars computer network. The second test is recommended at temps within 5 degrees of original.
First test: battery has 14.48 kWh's capacity remaining.
Second test: TBD. Hopefully in one week, pending weather conditions.
How much actual capacity in kWh's on a new 24 kWh? Is this published?
How are the bars calculated? I've seen the table where first bar at:
1 bar lost - 15% loss of battery capacity
2 bars lost - 21.25 % loss of battery capacity
3 bars lost - 27.5% loss of battery capacity
4 bars lost - 33.75% loss of battery capacity
Is this published by Nissan?
I don't think I would have bought this car had I done more research beyond Consumer Reports. Kinda let down on this right now.
Jade
#1420 - 35,500 miles, SoCal original car per Carfax
Bought less than Two years ago from Nissan Dealership
$1600 Extended Service Contract (in writing from Dealer) 84 month extension, extended to 114,000 miles dealer repeats that it applies to battery replacement.
Capacity problems after 10 months.
Currently at 9 bars
What is the efficiency of the onboard charger at 240 volts? If 17.03 kWh is metered at the wall using a California engineer calibrated grade meter using level 2 at 240 volts at 80 degrees outdoors on sunny California day, how much charge goes to the battery? (Starting at 1/4 mile driven past second low battery warning up to 100% full charge). The third-party California Consumer Affairs licensed engineer testing used 0.85 for energy losses for the onboard charging system in their preliminary report. They based their initial findings strictly using kWh's. This is to avoid going into the cars computer network. The second test is recommended at temps within 5 degrees of original.
First test: battery has 14.48 kWh's capacity remaining.
Second test: TBD. Hopefully in one week, pending weather conditions.
How much actual capacity in kWh's on a new 24 kWh? Is this published?
How are the bars calculated? I've seen the table where first bar at:
1 bar lost - 15% loss of battery capacity
2 bars lost - 21.25 % loss of battery capacity
3 bars lost - 27.5% loss of battery capacity
4 bars lost - 33.75% loss of battery capacity
Is this published by Nissan?
I don't think I would have bought this car had I done more research beyond Consumer Reports. Kinda let down on this right now.
Jade