bernie82 said:
Looking at your 100% chart I notice that the average miles per bar at at a specified speed increases as we get deeper into the batteries. for example, at 10 bars at 60 MPH, the chart indicate that the leaf can travel 61 miles or 6.1 miles per bar. When the Leaf is down to 3 bars at 60 MPH the chart indicates that the leaf can travel 30 miles or 10 miles per bar. Is there an explanation for this phenomena?
I'm not sure what you're seeing. Part of the issue that might not be obvious is that the 1st fuel bar does not stay lit until turtle.
I'm looking at the chart and there's not 10 miles per bar at 60mph. There's 30 miles of range left in the 3rd bar, and
six miles later, the second bar then has 24 miles, and then
nine miles later, the 1st bar has 15 miles of range, and only
three miles the Low Battery Warning comes on concurrent with the 1st bar still staying illuminated. 12 miles of range remain.
During this time, eventually the 1st bar turns off, but we don't care, because we aren't using the fuel bars for range calculations any more. Stay now with the battery warnings. It might make more sense by looking at the 85% (15% degradation) chart, you'll see that LBW can come on with two fuel bars. With 50% degradation, there may be 4 or 5 fuel bars lit up when the LBW comes on. That's because the fuel bars are variable to the total available capacity, but the battery warnings (LBW and VLB) are indexed to a specific amount of energy measured in "Gids" (calculated battery watt/hours).
Eight miles after LBW came on, the Very Low Battery comes on with
four miles remaining. Then Turtle mode will come on. Then the car will stop shortly thereafter.
At 3.9 miles per kWh or about 60mph on flat terrain:
Fuel Bar 3- 30 miles range remaining -
6 miles until fuel bar 2
Fuel Bar 2- 24 miles range remaining -
9 miles (the "fattest" fuel bar)
Fuel Bar 1- 15 miles range remaining -
3 miles until LBW, but stays on
LBW------ 12 miles range remaining -
8 miles until VLB
VLB------- 4 miles range remaining -
4 miles until Turtle
Turtle----- 0 miles range remaining - ------------------
Again, relating to the chart, does the projected range for a given speed mean to Turtle mode or to the first low battery warning?
All the projected range data is to Turtle. The first Low Battery Warning still has 17.4% of the available energy in the battery. No "reserve" is implied.