Hello everyone again...
I would be grateful if you could tell me your opinion about an issue with my Leaf's range...
I just bought it used:
2012 Leaf SL
48000 km
Still all the bars of the battery: 132 km claimed range (in ECO mode) when 100% full.
So my workplace is 14 km from home.
I leave home after an 80% recharge of the battery.
The car says I have 121 km range.
I drive the 14 km.
I arrive at work.
The car says I have 68 km range.
I drove in ECO mode.
No AC.
No heater.
Only lights (it's 4 am when I leave, still dark).
No steep climbs, a pretty flat route (maybe very very slight slope in some tracts).
Average speed 70 km/h, with some short tracts at 80 km/h.
I drove 14 km.
I lost 53 km range.
That's an astounding 378% higher consumption!
Now, I understand one thing is theory, another thing is real life.
I might understand a +20%. Even +50%.
But even with a +100%, which is double, the km loss would have been 28.
But not 53 km, come on!
Do you think this is normal?
Thank you!
UPDATE November 7, 2016:
The range drop is real, I checked, it’s not only an estimation. Because if I don’t stop somewhere and charge the battery, it really drops almost to zero!
Wherever I drive, flat streets, normal road and traffic conditions, at a reasonable speed of 70-80 km/h the range in kilometers drops at the rate of approximately 1 km every 10 seconds!
I would be grateful if you could tell me your opinion about an issue with my Leaf's range...
I just bought it used:
2012 Leaf SL
48000 km
Still all the bars of the battery: 132 km claimed range (in ECO mode) when 100% full.
So my workplace is 14 km from home.
I leave home after an 80% recharge of the battery.
The car says I have 121 km range.
I drive the 14 km.
I arrive at work.
The car says I have 68 km range.
I drove in ECO mode.
No AC.
No heater.
Only lights (it's 4 am when I leave, still dark).
No steep climbs, a pretty flat route (maybe very very slight slope in some tracts).
Average speed 70 km/h, with some short tracts at 80 km/h.
I drove 14 km.
I lost 53 km range.
That's an astounding 378% higher consumption!
Now, I understand one thing is theory, another thing is real life.
I might understand a +20%. Even +50%.
But even with a +100%, which is double, the km loss would have been 28.
But not 53 km, come on!
Do you think this is normal?
Thank you!
UPDATE November 7, 2016:
The range drop is real, I checked, it’s not only an estimation. Because if I don’t stop somewhere and charge the battery, it really drops almost to zero!
Wherever I drive, flat streets, normal road and traffic conditions, at a reasonable speed of 70-80 km/h the range in kilometers drops at the rate of approximately 1 km every 10 seconds!