IssacZachary
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As a new Leaf owner I find myself overwhelmed by the amount of acronyms related to Leafs and EV's in general. I thought I'd start a forum here where anyone can come look these acronyms up and also help add them. This is what I've figured out so far:
Please help me with the billions of other acronyms that I have no idea what they mean!
Thanks to annabel398, FalconFour, cwerdna and RegGuheert!
- BEV, Battery Electric Vehicle. A vehicle that derives its form of propulsion from energy stored in an onboard traction battery.
- CHAdeMO - Japanese quick charging standard that looks like a jet fuel connector
- DCQC - Direct current quick charge; see QC
- EV, Electric Vehicle: This can refer to any vehicle that uses electricity for propulsion including electric trains and trollies, although most people use it to refer to a battery electric vehicle or BEV.
- EVSE, Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment: This is what normally plugs into your BEV to charge it by supplying the BEV's onboard charger with alternating current. Some are hardwired to the electric grid, usually through a circuit breaker box, and others have a plug on one end that can plug into a household outlet. EVSE's supply household Alternating Current to the EV's onboard charger.
- GID, ???: 1/77.5 of a watt-hour, I think.
- GOM, Guess-O-Meter: This refers to the miles or kilometers remaining that the Leaf "guesses" you have left before the battery runs dead.
- J1772 - the name of the standard for the regular charging port on the car
- kW, kilowatt: A unit of power. A kilowatt is one thousand watts. A kilowatt equals close to 1.34 horsepower.
- kWh, kilowatt-hour: A unit of energy. It's the amount of energy used to supply one kilowatt of power for one hour. For comparison, a gallon of gasoline contains around 33kWh of energy.
- LEAF, Leading Environmental Affordable Family car.
- L1 - Level 1 (charging) - 120v charging of any kind using the standard J1772 port
- L2 - Level 2 - 240v charging of any kind using the standard port
- L3 - Level 3: DC charging of any kind, where the charger is off-board the car and charges the battery directly, see QC
- S, SV, and SL - not acronyms but trim levels of the Leaf, in order from least expensive to most expensive.
- SOC, State Of Charge: The amount of energy that is in the traction battery.
- SOH - State of Health: represents the overall capacity of the battery (as opposed to the charge it has at the moment) - typically represented as a percentage of original, brand-new battery capacity. Low SOH means a degraded battery; high SOH means a battery with little degradation.
- QC - Quick Charge; Level 3 charger (very fast, uses CHAdeMO connector on the Leaf, not all Leafs are equipped with it)
Please help me with the billions of other acronyms that I have no idea what they mean!
Thanks to annabel398, FalconFour, cwerdna and RegGuheert!