Caracalover
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I take my Leaf over a mountain every Sunday, about a 3000 foot elevation change, and go 65 miles into the high desert.
For more than a year in all weather I have done this, and although the software has changed, one thing has remained consistent. I get to low battery warning as I arrive at the destination.
Last Sunday I got in the Leaf and noticed one of the capacity bars had vanished. Figured no big deal since I had made the trip last week, it would make it this week too. Strange thing is, it did it with no LBW, althugh it did go to one bar after a quick trip into the supermarket on the way.
On the way home the power available bars remained lit longer. I typically am down to two bars lately (Down to one once) when I crest the mountain coming home, and for the first time since the software upgrade I had three at the crest, and the GOM was showing double digit range (12), where it typically reads single digit (5 when I had one bar, no LBW).
I don't obsess about the battery, range, or GOM. I also don't look at the M/KWH like many here do. I drive according to time, and for this trip I allow an hour and forty five minutes. I am always a bit frugal with my energy use on these trips, as my wife is with me and she is helpful at keeping my energy use in check. I arrived on time at both ends of this Sunday drive, and with a little less concern than I had the week before, although one little light went off on the "capacity" gauge.
I am thinking that gauge may be as wonky as the GOM.
The LBW may have moved lower is another possibility, but the drive home this Sunday seemed even faster than the drive home last week - I know I drove faster up the mountain than usual, since the energy bars were higher when I exited the freeway. BTW 30 miles of this trip is freeway, which I travel around 60MPH, depending on traffic (I speed up to not slow the flow) and the time I have available to get to where I am going.
I haven't read the entire thread "Lost a bar, down to 11" so forgive me if others have already noted this phenomenom.
For more than a year in all weather I have done this, and although the software has changed, one thing has remained consistent. I get to low battery warning as I arrive at the destination.
Last Sunday I got in the Leaf and noticed one of the capacity bars had vanished. Figured no big deal since I had made the trip last week, it would make it this week too. Strange thing is, it did it with no LBW, althugh it did go to one bar after a quick trip into the supermarket on the way.
On the way home the power available bars remained lit longer. I typically am down to two bars lately (Down to one once) when I crest the mountain coming home, and for the first time since the software upgrade I had three at the crest, and the GOM was showing double digit range (12), where it typically reads single digit (5 when I had one bar, no LBW).
I don't obsess about the battery, range, or GOM. I also don't look at the M/KWH like many here do. I drive according to time, and for this trip I allow an hour and forty five minutes. I am always a bit frugal with my energy use on these trips, as my wife is with me and she is helpful at keeping my energy use in check. I arrived on time at both ends of this Sunday drive, and with a little less concern than I had the week before, although one little light went off on the "capacity" gauge.
I am thinking that gauge may be as wonky as the GOM.
The LBW may have moved lower is another possibility, but the drive home this Sunday seemed even faster than the drive home last week - I know I drove faster up the mountain than usual, since the energy bars were higher when I exited the freeway. BTW 30 miles of this trip is freeway, which I travel around 60MPH, depending on traffic (I speed up to not slow the flow) and the time I have available to get to where I am going.
I haven't read the entire thread "Lost a bar, down to 11" so forgive me if others have already noted this phenomenom.