2013 LEAF AVTA testing

[edatoakrun]

Not much detail reported yet, but it sounds like AVT, unable to EOL (degrade to 70% of "new" capacity) the four 2012's LEAFs batteries after 50 k Miles of torture in Phoenix, plan to give the updated LEAFs at least 60 k miles of testing. If and when updates are released, they will be posted here.

2013 Nissan Leaf BEV Accelerated Testing – December 2013
Four model year 2013 Nissan Leaf battery electric vehicles (BEVs) entered Accelerated testing - one during April 2013 and the other three during December 2013 in a fleet in Arizona. Each Leaf BEV will be operated for 60,000 miles, at which point their traction batteries will be tested before they are retired (their traction batteries are also tested when new)...

http://avt.inel.gov/pdf/fsev/2013nissanleaf_ar.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If any of you with "new" (or just newer) LEAFs want to try to see how accurately you can estimate the (expected) higher ranges that will come from AVT for "new" 2013-14s, feel free to range test your LEAF using the AVT standards at constant-speed, and post your results here.

 

[RegGuheert]

Overall capacity losses are interesting, but having it broken down between cycling and calendar losses is better. As such, it's too bad they do not have a control LEAF which is discharged perhaps once each month, but otherwise simply kept in the same environment with the other vehicles.