GardenLady
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How do you set the charge to 80% on 2025 Leaf? I've looked numerous places and tried the app, but no luck.
set charge to 80% on 2025 Leaf?
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It was only the very early Leafs that you could do that. AFAIK you can't on a 2025, and I know you can't on a 2015.
GardenLady
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Thanks so much for clarifying--- although it is disappointing.
WaffleClap
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It's a damn shame. I was halfway hoping they were gonna discontinue the Leaf line just for the scant possibility they would push an update that restored the 80% charge limit setting, since then the hit on their EPA rating wouldn't be relevant anymore. At the very least, let it be Opt-In, dammit!
WaffleClap
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That's all well and good. I do that, every single time I need to charge the car, roughly once a week. I charge L1, and just use the "time to X% charge" display for 75% and tack on 2-3 hours on the onboard timer. I've been doing that 1-2 times a week since February. Incredibly easy, takes me 30 seconds. Eventually I'll have some kind of setup with a spare phone or laptop, Leaf Spy and a WiFi controlled outlet.
In the meantime, however, it's still a damn pain. It's still annoying that the functionality is there, but disabled. No, it's not a deal breaker. Yes, it's incredibly simple math. It's still (technically) unnecessary, and this is just enough of a tiny rock in my shoe that if it were bigger I'd get over it quickly. In fact, I have gotten over it. In the moment, I don't give it a passing thought, don't even care, I just do it. But the fact of it is that it's still an unnecessary step that could be (potentially) easily remedied.
I'm tired of the "just do some simple math" line every time this comes up, it's a weak argument and apologistic. It's like having a door that slams closed on your ankle every time you walk through it, and the homeowner just says, "you just gotta hop quicklike." Cmon man. Fix your damn door.
This is a basic functionality that a bevy of other EV's have that the Leafs did, and now don't, and probably never will again. Which I can't help but find truly ridiculous.
mervyncp
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My 2015 Leaf has an 80% charge setting.
PaulNewall
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The situation might be different in different countries. Combinder89 said you can't set 80% on a 2015, but on my 2015 (tekna) in the UK I can set 80% if I use the charge timer.
I wonder if its possible to get a smart charge point that communicates with the car and can stop at 80%?
I wonder if its possible to get a smart charge point that communicates with the car and can stop at 80%?
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Not a bad idea, I have found Alexa controllable plugs on Amazon for about $10 cad.
And yes I too use the 'simple math' technique and made it even simpler. At L1 its just under 4%/hr for my 90% SOH 2018 (40 kWh). So if I want 25% to top up to 75-80% SOC its 25/4 = 6 hours. No phaffing about with kWh or conversions.
And if going to 100% I add 2 hours for slow charge and balancing.
I just use a charge regimen that replaces what I used that day. As my use is generally close to the same, it adv out.
I have my adjustable EVSE set to 16 amps and the time to 2 hr, which equates to a little over 7 Kwh. If the car isn't used, it doesn't get plugged in (un plugged every morning)
It is how I would charge if it took the full battery or if I had enough range to charge once a week. If I had more range, I would keep the charge around 45%- 65% but still charge every night, just not very much.
I don't think about how much to what percent, just replace what I use.
Not a perfect plan but almost "brainless" to execute
I have my adjustable EVSE set to 16 amps and the time to 2 hr, which equates to a little over 7 Kwh. If the car isn't used, it doesn't get plugged in (un plugged every morning)
It is how I would charge if it took the full battery or if I had enough range to charge once a week. If I had more range, I would keep the charge around 45%- 65% but still charge every night, just not very much.
I don't think about how much to what percent, just replace what I use.
Not a perfect plan but almost "brainless" to execute
I should have said in the US.
Kevin D Murphy
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My Enel X Way level 2 charger communicates with my 2020 Leaf, and the software allows me to set any state of charge as the minimum or maximum. One can also set the charge by time.
duncan-s
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Any chance you can post a picture or two of the control interface, whether it's on the Enel unit or on a phone app? I'm interested to see how that setup is done. Thanks.
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The opening page is a map of charging spots. The menu for the app is at the bottom of the opening page. The home page is where you see the existing beginning and ending of ther charge cycle., and by going to Vehicle Settings you can adjust the start/end. Hope this helps.
WaffleClap
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That's really interesting, I thought I read somewhere that the Leaf couldn't communicate charge level natively over the J1772 connector. I wonder if that EVSE is an exception, or if it just does a timed calculation.
Do you have to set the current charge state manually, or is that "36%" automatically set and matched to the car once connected?
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At first I thought it would sync to the current battery state of charge, but it doesn't. You have to set both the existing % of charge and your desired maximum charge. It might be a timed calculation, because the final state of charge isn't exactly what I've set on the app.
I have the ENELX charger discussed and pictured.
The "starting energy" (36% in photo) must be set manually.
The app then simply calculates how many KWH to add based upon the "target energy" you input and the battery capacity you have input into its data base (62KWH in photo).
The unit does measure how much energy it inputs to know when to stop the charge.
It serves the intended purpose but the unit does not get a charge level signal from the car.
By example, I once charged to 100% accidentally when I set the "starting energy" too low. It added the energy it calculated (too much) which blew past my 80% "target energy" setting. The Leaf BMS stopped the charge at 100%.
The "starting energy" (36% in photo) must be set manually.
The app then simply calculates how many KWH to add based upon the "target energy" you input and the battery capacity you have input into its data base (62KWH in photo).
The unit does measure how much energy it inputs to know when to stop the charge.
It serves the intended purpose but the unit does not get a charge level signal from the car.
By example, I once charged to 100% accidentally when I set the "starting energy" too low. It added the energy it calculated (too much) which blew past my 80% "target energy" setting. The Leaf BMS stopped the charge at 100%.
LanguidSphinx
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Some people want the 80% limit badly enough that you can get kits from for e.g. EVs Enhanced to add the option back in.....at around 500USD!
I do a little math: (80-X)/19= time in hours to reach 80% on a 40 kWh Leaf. Where X is the current SOC when I begin to charge. It's pretty consistent. I set a timer for the hours and minutes and turn the charger off when it reaches zero
PaulNewall
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Maybe a little phone app would be a nice thing to have. Enter some settings for your battery capacity, target state of charge, and charger power, once. Then each day, enter the state of charge and the app tells you how long to change for.
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