gbarry42
Well-known member
I have had my LEAF for only a week, so I may discover some "newbie factors" to help understand my problem. As a Prius driver, though, I'm not exactly new to the energy game. The range of my LEAF seems awfully limited. If I start out with a full charge (and something like 88 mi range) and drive 17 miles to work, it's showing around 50 miles remaining. After returning home, it will show around 20. The terrain is S. California up-a-hill, across a mesa, down-a-hill, rinse, repeat. The miles per kWh reads around 3.3. And most of the calculations I do seem to make sense, if I believe all these numbers it is showing me. That's kind of hard to do, since SOC is highly quantized, the driving range is a guess based on a mystery algorithm, and I'm supposed to ignore anything that Carwings tells me.
The kicker (as advertised in the title) is, that when I plug it in at night, if it tells me it will take 3 hours to go to 80%, but it might charge 1.5-2 hours. If I want to top it off in the morning (go from 80 to 100 percent), it says it will take 1.5 hours, but will do it in 1. Last night it said the 80% charge would be 4-5 hours, but it took 3.
Knowing nothing, I would wonder if the capacity of the battery is 24 kWh or more like 18. I had fanciful visions of some of the packs not actually connected, but I just read AndyH's thorough explanation of the battery configuration and the only paralleling of cells is a pair inside each of the 48 modules. Everything is in series otherwise. And I would think any large scale problem like that would be picked up by whatever sensors they've planted in there.
So my questions are, how long does your charge take, and how does it compare to the predicted?
I will try to keep better numbers in the future, 'cause I know y'all will be asking some good questions.
Barry
The kicker (as advertised in the title) is, that when I plug it in at night, if it tells me it will take 3 hours to go to 80%, but it might charge 1.5-2 hours. If I want to top it off in the morning (go from 80 to 100 percent), it says it will take 1.5 hours, but will do it in 1. Last night it said the 80% charge would be 4-5 hours, but it took 3.
Knowing nothing, I would wonder if the capacity of the battery is 24 kWh or more like 18. I had fanciful visions of some of the packs not actually connected, but I just read AndyH's thorough explanation of the battery configuration and the only paralleling of cells is a pair inside each of the 48 modules. Everything is in series otherwise. And I would think any large scale problem like that would be picked up by whatever sensors they've planted in there.
So my questions are, how long does your charge take, and how does it compare to the predicted?
I will try to keep better numbers in the future, 'cause I know y'all will be asking some good questions.
Barry