Recent content by Silverfish

I wish they did that in Washington state. Traffic sucks here, and EVs don't get to use the carpool lanes. I think you're going to be happy with your car with its new traction battery. You might want to experiment with different freeway speeds to see how big a hit the battery performance takes...

FWIW, I bought a 2013 Leaf SV with about 50k miles this past May for about $8500, but it had cosmetic body damage whose repair brought its real price up to more like $10k. Mine had 11 bars when I bought it, 10 bars now, battery at probably roughly 75% capacity. Its 100% range is probably around...

A few thoughts: - I'd use Leaf Spy to find out the battery's actual stats. What looks like 11 bars could be nearly 12 or nearly 10. - If the batteries' stats were similar, I'd personally probably go with the 2015. - If the 2013 was manufactured before March, I'd give it a pass, since I believe...

Thanks!

I would be interested in any information about what batteries I can eventually swap into my 2013 Leaf when the current 24 kWh battery degrades to the point where it's no longer usable. So any translations that help with that would be most appreciated.

Interesting. Good to have another data point.

Thanks. At this point, I'm mostly tracking the car's reported battery percentage and the trip meter, to get a sense of how many miles per battery percent the car can go. There's a lot of variation depending on driving conditions, but the averages don't seem to have decreased over the last...

You and me both.

Ah, sorry. I did a quick Google search and didn't find an existing topic. It's fine with me to merge this into whatever existing topic the mods choose. Or I can just delete it, if I can delete topics I opened. Interesting. I had thought that the lizard battery didn't officially appear until...

I hardly knew ye. But I knew it was basically a 10-bar Leaf when I bought it about 2 months ago. Stats, for the curious: 2013 Leaf SV (built in 2/2013, so probably no lizard battery) odometer: 53,915 AHr: 49.62 SoH: 75.87 Hx: 68.31 Stats 2 months ago: odometer: 53,215 AHr: 51.28 SoH: 78.41...

Yes. This. I just turned the driver's side headrest around; that was a good tip. We'll see how it works out. It's certainly more comfortable and allows me to sit up straighter, but I wonder what safety trade-offs I'm making. I really don't like having to drive with the seat reclined back far...

@WetEV, how can you tell the difference between fooling the BMS and doing things that are actually good for your battery? I've read that the LeafSpy battery stats are kind of meaningless over the short term, like a few months, but I'd think that over 15 months, they would at least mean...

Good to know. Thanks.

Thanks, cwerdna. That was quite interesting. It looks like my car's max GIDs at 100% is currently around 215. That suggests that my battery retains about 76.5% of its original capacity, which is about what I thought.

I don't know the numbers that the Leaf or LeafSpy uses to arrive at its percentages, which is why I said I didn't know which denominator you meant. All I see are the numbers in the LeafSpy display pages; most of it is Greek to me. Honestly I'm not sure what use the GID value is either, or how...