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Aussie said:
briman said:
Waiting for my 4th bar to drop any day now.
Just bought the 2013 with 34k miles.
43.10 ahr
Soh 65%

You may have a little while yet. Where are you based?

Phoenix, but it's starting to cool off. Car was from California.
 
cwerdna said:
briman said:
Waiting for my 4th bar to drop any day now.
Just bought the 2013 with 34k miles.
43.10 ahr
Soh 65%
What was its build month? It's on the sticker on the driver's side door jamb.

Not sure at the moment, but when I called Nissan, they said my in service date is August 2013.
 
I have a 04/14 manufactured Leaf with the following readings...

AHr 53.079
SOH 81%
Hx 75.52

and 34100 miles on it and 11 bars. I know I have until 04/19 to get to 8 bars, but I think I might pass it with my mileage. Any predictions on getting to 8 bars by 04/19 or sooner? I'm in Austin and keep my car outside and fully charged as much as possible along with driving like a bat on the highways.
 
I've lost 10 AHr points on my 2013 from January to Sept from 32,000 to 38,000 miles in the more temperate Chicago market and gentle driving. Although the 2014 battery is a little better, I suspect rapid degradation in your climate next summer.
 
Have a 2015 SV. Build date 7/14. Currently have 13,000 miles. No QC. All L2 charging.

Did a Leaf Spy check on 6/25 with the result below:

GID 287
102.1%
SOC 97.2%

Just this morning I checked again after what should have been a 100% charge and got the following:

GID 255
90.7%
SOC 97.4%

I know with the difference in ambient temps, being 4 months apart, the GID may be lower, but how much of this 10% drop in 24 months is due to the degradation itself? The battery was declared by the dealer to be a lizard.
 
Finally got a bluetooth dongle and loaded up LeafSpy Lite. Here's my stats:

2011 MY SL (manufactured July 2011)
75722 mi
52.56 AH
80% SOH
still showing 11 capacity bars, FWIW.
 
Just lost my 2nd capacity bar this morning on my 2012 at 29,102 miles in 4 years and 4 months of ownership. With the cold nights we have been having in San Jose, CA, I was somewhat surprised to see it missing. My LEAF still meets my needs of 50 miles round trip once in awhile, so I am still loving driving it.
 
Finally lost our first bar last week on Thursday. :( Sad to see it go. I was hoping with the infinitely cold weather now here until May it would stay another winter, but I guess not.

Batt stats: Ahr 54.94, SOH 83%, 17,449 miles, 2012. Lived in Seattle before we bought it here in Feb 2016.
 
I bought a pre owned Leaf 2 months ago with a little over 100.000 km on the teller just over 2 years old. Used as a electric taxi in Amsterdam, NL. December 2013, 24kwh Tekna, 12 capacity bars

Battery status according to LeafSpy: AHr 55.81, SOH: 85%, HX 82,90, odd 116.457 km, 1559 QC, 1022 L1/L2
 
East said:
I bought a pre owned Leaf 2 months ago with a little over 100.000 km on the teller just over 2 years old. Used as a electric taxi in Amsterdam, NL. December 2013, 24kwh Tekna, 12 capacity bars

Battery status according to LeafSpy: AHr 55.81, SOH: 85%, HX 82,90, odd 116.457 km, 1559 QC, 1022 L1/L2

There you go...pretty good evidence that QC is not harmful to the battery! I think you got an awesome deal (well, I don't know much you paid, but I suspect with 100K km on the clock you probably got a good deal). With that kind of battery stats, you should be able to get plenty of more use out of this car!
 
lpickup said:
East said:
I bought a pre owned Leaf 2 months ago with a little over 100.000 km on the teller just over 2 years old. Used as a electric taxi in Amsterdam, NL. December 2013, 24kwh Tekna, 12 capacity bars

Battery status according to LeafSpy: AHr 55.81, SOH: 85%, HX 82,90, odd 116.457 km, 1559 QC, 1022 L1/L2

There you go...pretty good evidence that QC is not harmful to the battery! I think you got an awesome deal (well, I don't know much you paid, but I suspect with 100K km on the clock you probably got a good deal). With that kind of battery stats, you should be able to get plenty of more use out of this car!

I've paid 13.000 euros and got 3000 euro municipalities rebate. Effectively the car cost me 10k. The dealer had about 40 old leaf taxis for sale this year. Most of them were sold to traders in other EU countries.

I think QC are not harmful, but leaving the battery charged at high percentage is for a long period of time is.
 
East said:
I bought a pre owned Leaf 2 months ago with a little over 100.000 km on the teller just over 2 years old. Used as a electric taxi in Amsterdam, NL. December 2013, 24kwh Tekna, 12 capacity bars

Battery status according to LeafSpy: AHr 55.81, SOH: 85%, HX 82,90, odd 116.457 km, 1559 QC, 1022 L1/L2
Interesting. That's about 72.3K miles. With other stats like that and the table at http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?p=455984#p455984, it seems like it's on the verge of losing a capacity bar soon though.

I'd imagine that Amsterdam is a pretty mild climate. I've only been there once in the winter.
 
OK, battery degradation - 2012 SL, 14.2K miles, parked outside always, including in the sun, and it gets hot in LA, but not like Phoenix, not for more than a week at a time usually. Wife uses it for work, including twice a week at night. When she returns home the predicted mileage is (was) usually down around 40, and she charges again till it's full.

We're down to 11 bars. And where our predicted mileage regularly showed 80-90, now it's in the low 70s, and when she gets home it's as low as 28.
 
So 2 weeks ago my AHr was 43.38 65% SOH. I had not connected to leaf spy until today and I was welcomed to a 43.70 66%SOH I only have 2k miles till 60,000 How in the world does it go up .32 points.
 
kjpowers said:
So 2 weeks ago my AHr was 43.38 65% SOH. I had not connected to leaf spy until today and I was welcomed to a 43.70 66%SOH I only have 2k miles till 60,000 How in the world does it go up .32 points.

Cell balancing. Any time you leave the car sitting for awhile, particularly at full charge, it will have a chance to rebalance and reclaim some of the capacity lost by the imbalance.
 
lpickup said:
kjpowers said:
So 2 weeks ago my AHr was 43.38 65% SOH. I had not connected to leaf spy until today and I was welcomed to a 43.70 66%SOH I only have 2k miles till 60,000 How in the world does it go up .32 points.

Cell balancing. Any time you leave the car sitting for awhile, particularly at full charge, it will have a chance to rebalance and reclaim some of the capacity lost by the imbalance.

Fantastic, now I'm up to 43.75 no way I'm going to make my warranty date now :-( guess I will start saving for a new battery. I was reading on another post about a 20/80% split but I don't remember the conditions.
 
Two routes you can take, try to preserve or try to accelerate the impending failure.

Best way to kill lithium batteries in my experience is to run them dead. Do you have another car? Run the Leaf to turtle and park it and don't plug it in. I would imagine after a week or two it would have discharged below the safe level and start to go bad fast.
 
VitaminJ said:
Two routes you can take, try to preserve or try to accelerate the impending failure.

Best way to kill lithium batteries in my experience is to run them dead. Do you have another car? Run the Leaf to turtle and park it and don't plug it in. I would imagine after a week or two it would have discharged below the safe level and start to go bad fast.
Shame I did not know this. I was told to run it up to 100% and leave it for 2 weeks. Which is what I did. I am not able to let it sit right now. BUT I do turtle it almost every day trying to get to work.
 
I think I have extraterrestrial battery on my Leaf.
Did one 100% 59 minute charge at DC-station.
Hx/SOH went up after DC-charge from 95 to 98,39%, SOH 98%.
Unrealistic numbers. I felt 95% was more-or-less correct.

279GIDs my *ss :roll: Not possible. Battery is 2,5 years old, 46600 miles, almost out of warranty.
 
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