2013-2014 bar losers and capacity losses

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I was surprised I didn't see much discussion about these swings or the effect of cold ambient temperature, because they'd be critical in evaluating a used car for someone in a cold climate. Battery temperatures didn't swing as wildly or seem to have as much of an effect.

I have Leaf Spy running on a spare phone almost all the time and logging to Dropbox. Although these are my max/min readings over a timeframe, none are really outliers from the surrounding data. It seems to take about 3 days for readings to stabilize after a big ambient temperature swing.

I've also seen GIDs at 100% charge swing accordingly from 259 to 284 over the same timeframe, although they seem to max out at 284 for any AHr reading above the high 65 range.

Based on the way the data is trending for my car, I may have a low enough AHr reading by mid summer to lose a bar after showing 103+ Hx at times in the winter! Perhaps if things continue I'll make and publish a trend of the data.
 
bpnugent said:
DaveinOlyWA said:
bpnugent said:
I just lost my first capacity bar on my 2013 Nissan Leaf. Here are my stats:

MY13 (took delivery 10/13)
Location: Northern Colorado
Date of loss: 2/6/17
Mileage at loss: 51604
AHr: 55.18
SOH: 84%
Hx: 81.57
L1/L2 charges: 3029
QC: 37

I try to leave my LEAF outside at night to cool off the battery. We moved to charging to 100% in the morning every weekday (just prior to departure) in the last year or so to make up for capacity loss.

So you do generally charge in your garage? I would think that Colorado would not see consistently high temps? But I guess that depends on your elevation

I do primarily charge and store in my garage during the day, and try to get it outside at night. The temperature difference between the high and low on any given day is pretty high- 30 degrees or so. Dry and 5,000 feet. There are really only a couple of months where you can see temps in the 90's fairly consistently. I've only seen my temperature bars get to 7 twice ever, and I'm usually able to get down to 5 bars overnight even in the worst months.


well have to guess you got an early 2013 because you lost your bar within a few thousand miles of when I would have lost mine...on my 2011. After 45,000 miles ahr was 57½ish. On my 2013 (build date 11/13) I had 60 ahr after 45,000 miles so was looking at losing first bar around 65-75,000 miles or so....
 
Last full charge on my 2014 SL before it went back to Nissan 3/9/17 at lease end:

AHr 54.78
SOH 83%
Hx 80.55%
SOC 97.2%
238 GIDs (84.7%)
21,608 miles
QC 186
L1/L2 501

Many thanks to everyone here and special thanks to Turbo3 for Leaf Spy Pro.
 
DaveInAvl said:
Last full charge on my 2014 SL before it went back to Nissan 3/9/17 at lease end:

AHr 54.78
SOH 83%
Hx 80.55%
SOC 97.2%
238 GIDs (84.7%)
21,608 miles
QC 186
L1/L2 501

Many thanks to everyone here and special thanks to Turbo3 for Leaf Spy Pro.

well looks like you had 11 bars or were about ¾ of a mile from losing your first! :shock:
 
My 2013 Leaf SL still charges up to full bars, But the battery only holds 16kW! I'm wondering if they've reprogrammed the system so the bars just don't go away, because mine should be missing 4 bars. I know this because I also have a 2015 that I bought new, and I am very familiar with the way the 24kW battery performs. For example, from a near zero charge state, a full charge takes just under 16kW, which makes perfect sense because I get a little over 4 Mi/kW, so 4 X 16 = 62, which is very close to the actual range of the car.

So how do you get it warranteed if the capacity drops to half, but no bars are missing????!!!!???? I want to go more that 60 miles on a full charge!!

Anybody else experiencing this with the 2013? I've seen other leafs with bars lost, but I've never heard of dropping capacity with no bar loss!

John- 1015 Leaf LV bought new in January 2016 currently maintaining full capacity and range at 23,500 miles...(No Fast charger), and a
2013 Leaf SL with 30,500 miles and a capacity of 16kW, and 58-60 miles, and the Quick Charge system, with no bars missing.
 
I've been a lurker here but I figured I'd pop in to tell my battery warranty story. I have a 2013 leaf that I bought in June of 2016. The car spent it's first 3 years in Phoenix, but I bought it in Salt Lake City. When I bought it, it had 10 capacity bars. Less than a week of high temperature weather later I lost another bar, leaving me with 9. I purchased leafspy and an OBDII dealie on July 8th and got my first real data on the battery.

7/8/2016
Miles 36291.8
AHr 45.715
Hx 54.8
SOH 69%
QC 15
L1/L2 1595

I finally lost the 9th capacity bar on 5/16/17.

5/16/17
Miles 50033
Ahr 43.321
Hx 49.12
SOH 66%
QC 119
L1/L2 2120

Interestingly, the lowest AHr reading was several days earlier on 5/13/17 at 43.098.

I visited the dealer on 5/17/17 and they kept my leaf all day before saying that Nissan had approved the warranty replacement and my battery was ordered. They told me to expect a call the following week. They surprised my though and called me the very next day to say that my battery had arrived. My battery was replaced on 5/22 and it's like a brand new car. I went from 55 mile range to 90+. I'm definitely going to baby this new battery.

After replacement:
5/23/17
Ahr 65.4
Hx 99.95
SOH 100%
 
Pix to follow. Yesterday a WA LEAFer posted pix on his 12 bar 2013 @ 90,000 miles speculating whether his OEM tires would last to 100,000 miles!

UNREAL!
 
2013 Leaf down to 8 bars. Bought it used in Feb 2016 with 11 bars/36k miles. We are in NorCal, summer temps get to 100 and cars sits in heat at work.

now at 45k miles. Service appointment is Thursday afternoon.
 
rick64 said:
2013 Leaf down to 8 bars. Bought it used in Feb 2016 with 11 bars/36k miles. We are in NorCal, summer temps get to 100 and cars sits in heat at work.

now at 45k miles. Service appointment is Thursday afternoon.
Yay! What was the build month? It's on the driver's side door sticker. I guess you're in a hotter part of Nor Cal.

Can you add your car to http://www.electricvehiclewiki.com/Real_World_Battery_Capacity_Loss#Loss_of_four_battery_capacity_bars_.2833.75.25.29? Thanks!
 
cwerdna said:
rick64 said:
2013 Leaf down to 8 bars. Bought it used in Feb 2016 with 11 bars/36k miles. We are in NorCal, summer temps get to 100 and cars sits in heat at work.

now at 45k miles. Service appointment is Thursday afternoon.
Yay! What was the build month? It's on the driver's side door sticker. I guess you're in a hotter part of Nor Cal.

Can you add your car to http://www.electricvehiclewiki.com/Real_World_Battery_Capacity_Loss#Loss_of_four_battery_capacity_bars_.2833.75.25.29? Thanks!

car was built 01/13

yeah we live in Brentwood, CA. Summers can get pretty hot, rest of year is very mild though.

and I will add the car to the wiki
 
^^^
Thanks! As I suspected, yet another data point to validate that it seems '13 Leafs built before 4/2013 seem to have inferior batteries in terms of degradation.
 
MY2013 Leaf S, lost my first bar today at 54050 miles. Build date 10/2013 delivered 12/2013. AHr 54.982, Hx 20.99, SOH 84%. I have not babied it, 90% or more of the charges have been to 100%, lived in southeastern South Carolina, 20 minutes from Savannah, GA, the first 2 years then Cincinnati OH. Level One charging only for the first 2 years then level 2 charging, the only quick charge was once prior to purchase at either dealer or factory.
 
^^^
Thanks. Hx 20.99? That doesn't right. Typo?

Can you also add your data to http://www.electricvehiclewiki.com/Real_World_Battery_Capacity_Loss#one_bars?
DaveinOlyWA said:
Pix to follow. Yesterday a WA LEAFer posted pix on his 12 bar 2013 @ 90,000 miles speculating whether his OEM tires would last to 100,000 miles!

UNREAL!
I think that guy finally lost a capacity bar at 92,710 miles. Post at https://www.facebook.com/groups/seattlenissanleaf/permalink/1597025036995594/. Amazing! Wish my climate were that mild.

I expect my 5/2013 built Leaf to finally lose a capacity bar before this summer's over. I'm past 45.8K miles right now.
 
My 2013 Leaf SV lost 1 bar (currently at 11/12) at about 27.5k miles. That seems kind of early based on what I've read here. The car started out in Livermore, California for 3 years and now in Vancouver, Canada where the weather is a lot milder but damp. :) I don't know what charging method was used during the first 3 years, I am using trickle charge at home and Level 2 when I need a top up. After a full charge, the Leaf reports about 78 miles of available range. I believe the manufacture date is May 2013. I don't have Leaf Spy stats yet but working on getting some soon to post.
 
It gets very hot in Livermore and the surrounding area during the summer.

Example: http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?p=464260#p464260

Build month is on driver's side door sticker.
 
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