DaveinOlyWA
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what i prefer is user settable alerts by text msg. tell me when i am at 80, 90% etc...
DaveinOlyWA said:what i prefer is user settable alerts by text msg. tell me when i am at 80, 90% etc...
LEAFfan said:DaveinOlyWA said:what i prefer is user settable alerts by text msg. tell me when i am at 80, 90% etc...
+1! I like that idea! :mrgreen: Did you put that on the survey?
Funny you should ask. It was a most unique day for me! I normally charge to 80%, and that is what I had done Thursday night. Friday morning my wife had a doctor's appointment in San Jose, 15 miles from home, and was taking forever to get ready. We finally left home about ten minutes before her appointment time, so I broke all my normal rules. I flew up 101 at 80 mph all the way. :shock: (It didn't help, incidentally. She got bumped, and had to wait an hour to get in.)LEAFfan said:Interesting...did you start with 100%?
How many miles did you finally get - and at what m/kwh ?GregH said:I was waiting for the some of the little double bubble power bubbles to go single (the way regen does when you're full) but it didn't happen.. then at around 5 SOC# I lost one bubble then within seconds lost a bunch and had just a few available bubbles.. I made a U-turn and headed back towards my house at max speed 30-35mph.
Very informative - now we know at what SOC# (~5) we'll get to turtle and know that shut-down is eminent.GregH said:then at around 5 SOC# I lost one bubble then within seconds lost a bunch and had just a few available bubbles.. I made a U-turn and headed back towards my house at max speed 30-35mph. Turning into my neighborhood I lost all power. This was only about 1/2 mile from where I first started seeing any physical signs of reduced performance.
I'm very confused. Just what did you expect to happen? The battery was empty and you had to stop. I'm sure all those other cars also stopped when you ran them all the way down. You got a low battery warning, a very low battery warning, and finally turtle. Are you complaining because it didn't limit power sooner? Or because you weren't allowed to run the pack down till you were in danger of damaging it?GregH said:I've driven electric for years (EV1s and a RAV4-EV).. I've taken EV1s from coast to coast. I don't think I've ever had an EV completely STOP on me. Not cool.
-Greg
drees said:Very informative - now we know at what SOC# (~5) we'll get to turtle and know that shut-down is eminent.
Not sure why you want them to do this - they are giving you enough warnings ...GregH said:I was upset that the transition to reduced performance mode ("turtle" I suppose) was not more graceful. I had 100% power and then extreme RPM.. and then I could only drive about 1/2 mile in RPM before it conked out completely. In most other EVs I wouldn't expect full power so close to empty. I would also appreciate a more gradual transition to RPM.. I was expecting to see the double "bubbles" of usable power get ticked off one by one over the course of a mile or two... Not suddenly from 100% power to 10% power.
I don't think I would like that. I really appreciate having consistent performance for as long as possible. I might, for example, need to accelerate to switch lanes so I can make a turn to get to my charging point.GregH said:I would also appreciate a more gradual transition to RPM.. I was expecting to see the double "bubbles" of usable power get ticked off one by one over the course of a mile or two... Not suddenly from 100% power to 10% power.
GregH said:I was expecting to see the double "bubbles" of usable power get ticked off one by one over the course of a mile or two... Not suddenly from 100% power to 10% power. And lastly, when in RPM you should have more than 1/2 a mile left.. I suspect I might have had a low cell in there that set off a slow alarm when I did the full power acceleration so close to zero. Perhaps if I'd babied it, it would have gone longer.. but still the car shouldn't have let me do that.
GregH said:I was upset that the transition to reduced performance mode ("turtle" I suppose) was not more graceful. I had 100% power and then extreme RPM.. and then I could only drive about 1/2 mile in RPM before it conked out completely.
Good question ... I don't think anyone's tried that ... and I won't risk guessing what Nissan has "up its sleeve" once the car enters turtle mode. But we're all ready for YOU to try it and answer your own question :lol:edatoakrun said:Is it safe to assume that LEAF brake regen will charge the battery and take the car out of "turtle"?
I want to try a big ascent, and expect to be close to turtle at the top. If I don't make it, I can always turn around as soon as I hit turtle, and recharge with regen, right?
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