Cryptizard
Well-known member
Hi everyone, I am new here but I am having an issue I was hoping to get some insight on. I have a new 2016 Leaf SL that I got last month and the battery has been acting very strange. Every morning when I get in it is fully charged and displays an expected range of close to 120 miles. My commute is 30 miles one way, relatively flat and I never go faster than 65 MPH. I also don't use climate control because the weather has been nice so far. By the time I get home, it usually displays 25-30 miles left, with about 25% battery charge. I should also say that my average miles/kWh on the dash is always above 4. I thought this was weird, but chalked it up to the milage estimate being overly optimistic.
However, recently looking at it more closely, I consistently only use 25% of the battery and about 30 miles of the range on my way to work. On the way back, it drops from around 65% charge to about 30% charge in only a few miles. There are points where I would glance down at the mileage and watch it drop by 5-10 miles at a time. I also noticed today when I went to a fast charging station that it charged from 20% to 75% of the battery using only 10 kWh on the meter, which shouldn't be possible if the battery holds 30 kWh. In fact, it is behaving in all manners as if it actually only has about 20 kWh of capacity, but the mileage estimate doesn't realize that and has to "catch up" somewhere in the middle of the discharge cycle.
Has anyone had anything like this happen? Any idea on what could be causing it? Should I go back to the dealership? I don't think they know a lot about Leafs because I already had an issue with the cellular connection in the car not working and they had no idea how to fix it, until I showed them a post on this forum indicating what the problem likely was.
However, recently looking at it more closely, I consistently only use 25% of the battery and about 30 miles of the range on my way to work. On the way back, it drops from around 65% charge to about 30% charge in only a few miles. There are points where I would glance down at the mileage and watch it drop by 5-10 miles at a time. I also noticed today when I went to a fast charging station that it charged from 20% to 75% of the battery using only 10 kWh on the meter, which shouldn't be possible if the battery holds 30 kWh. In fact, it is behaving in all manners as if it actually only has about 20 kWh of capacity, but the mileage estimate doesn't realize that and has to "catch up" somewhere in the middle of the discharge cycle.
Has anyone had anything like this happen? Any idea on what could be causing it? Should I go back to the dealership? I don't think they know a lot about Leafs because I already had an issue with the cellular connection in the car not working and they had no idea how to fix it, until I showed them a post on this forum indicating what the problem likely was.