handee said:This morning our 2019 leaf was nearly completely dead. We managed to open the driver side door with the electronic key and then everything went dark: power button does nothing at all.
We've summoned recovery however we are in a fairly remote area and expect the mechanic to take ages, and when they get here they won't know anything about electric cars. Our nearest Nissan dealership involves a day trip. So I am interested in trying to work out what the problem is.
Yesterday I drove the car for about 70 minutes in total, using about 15% of the main battery (up a big hill in the morning, then down a big hill again in the afternoon, if it matters that the battery was mostly used in the morning and in the afternoon it was mostly regen).
When I parked I didn't bother plugging it in, as the battery meter was still reading over 60%.
Does anyone have any theories as to what might have happened? Looking at other posts on this forum it seems it could be something to do with the 12v battery. However, I thought the 12v charged from what I think of as "the big battery" when the car is driving - and i did quite a bit of that just yesterday. I can't have left the car switched on, as it was locked and it won't lock if it's on.
Update, in case anyone is interested:
Nissan replaced the battery, at the end of August.
Now visiting parents and it's gone again so we're waiting for recovery again. Since the last event in Aug I have been very careful about leaving it plugged in but not charging, and we're careful about doing long drives every now and then so it's not sat on the driveway.
Had it's 2 year service mid November, full check, everything reported to be fine.
Colour me unimpressed.