myleaf
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Just lost my 3rd bar, today 6_19_13
24,000 miles
100% Gid count 181
24,000 miles
100% Gid count 181
myleaf said:Just lost my 3rd bar, today 6_19_13
24,000 miles
100% Gid count 181
TonyWilliams said:I expect that you'll be "new battery warranty qualified(TM)" (NBWC) by the end of summer.
Congrats.
Maybe not that soon after he gets the new sw update to tighten up the capacity loss reading.TonyWilliams said:myleaf said:Just lost my 3rd bar, today 6_19_13
24,000 miles
100% Gid count 181
I expect that you'll be "new battery warranty qualified(TM)" (NBWC) by the end of summer.
Congrats.
myleaf said:Just lost my 3rd bar, today 6_19_13
24,000 miles
100% Gid count 181
Volusiano said:Maybe not that soon after he gets the new sw update to tighten up the capacity loss reading.
Update: We have been seeing 54.8875Ah the past couple days, still with 12 Capacity Bars and 9 Charge Bars to 80%.HighDesertDriver said:Yes, but with most our 80% charges resulting in 9 charge bars, I have been expecting to loose a bar anytime soon. I wanted to get these details recorded before our 2nd annual battery check and software update.TonyWilliams said:You still have all 12 capacity bars at 54.94 ampHours?
nogajim said:... I was at 55.62 Ahr on the Battery App.
nogajim said:I was already scheduled for the Software update tomorrow, so I hope to spend only a day for now on the list. Am I still wiki-worthy?
Weatherman said:I haven't yet tempted fate to see if those 15 extra miles are real or not.
Valdemar said:Now that we have the enhanced battery warranty in place I'm wondering if buying one of those relatively low-mileage '11 Leafs with 2-3 missing CBs might be a good idea, especially if you can negotiate a low purchase price leveraging their capacity loss in own favor. A moderately hot climate such as SoCal which will help to degrade the pack to 8 bars in 1 year or so, then you become eligible for battery repair or replacement. The big question remains if Nissan will be giving out new packs under this warranty.
TomT said:Technically, they only need to return you to 9 bars to be within the letter of the warranty but from a practical standpoint I should think they would want more pad than that so they don't have to do it a second or third time...
It will probably be trickier than that. I have no doubt the early recipients will receive new packs simply because Nissan isn't remanufacturing them yet. I'd expect that sometime (maybe a year) after the first flood of cars come off lease (which won't start in earnest until next year) Nissan will be putting new packs in some of those cars and will start remanufacturing packs. Also, next year they may get packs from people using the brand new battery rental program. People who use the warranty after that will get a refurb, and those will probably have 10 or 11 bars...or they might just refurb them all to 12 bars, hard to say.Valdemar said:... Yeah, it is a gamble. I don't think it will take long before there will be initial reports from those who used the warranty, not a guarantee of anything but at least there will be real life information.
exdeath said:I bought the 2011 Nissan Leaf with 2 bar loss at Nissan of Mckinney 2 days ago. I unfortunately didn't know what to look for until reading this forum.
When they gave me the car the range meter said 46 mile range. I had to go 32 miles home. They told me to use ECO mode, go 55mph and not run the AC. It was evening time, so this was easy, and I did so. I got home with 4 miles left on the range meter and the car was telling me to find a charging station.
I charged the car overnight and in the morning the range meter said 52 mile range. I engaged ECO mode, and left. As soon as I got 1/4 mile from the house the range meter said 38 miles (14 mile drop for 1/4 mile) I drove it to work in eco mode going between 60-65 MPH with the AC on 75 degrees and blowing low. I returned home later that day (Eco mode, 60-65mph, ac blowing low) and I had 4 miles left and the car was beeping at me again. So estimated 52 mile range, and only drove 34 in eco mode, and the car was empty again.
I charged over night, the car says it is completely full now, and is showing me a 57 mile range. I had 46 miles to commute today (to a different office), with no way of charging at work so I had to leave it at home based on my first day's experience.
Is this normal? Full charge and the range meter reads 57 miles? I thought the cars advertised 100 miles on the meters when new.
I drove the car one full day and have absolutely no confidence in the range and am literally scared to drive it.
Is my experience "normal" for a Leaf owner?
exdeath said:Unfortunately my commute is in a 70MPH zone with people already doing 80-90+ regularly so dropping to 55mph just makes you nearly get rear ended constantly.
I am on a turnpike that is brand new with no stations, I already checked, and my second commute also does not have any on the route except for miles out of the way. I guess Texas just isn't ready for electric cars.
I bought the car with the salesman saying 75 mile range, and when I have a 35-45 mile commute I was perfectly happy with that.
I cannot even go to lunch unfortunately even on my shortest commute. (Bright side I guess that saves me money)
Did the car's range meter originally say 100 miles range in 2011?
Just curious if it truly dropped nearly 50% of its own estimated range in 2 years.
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