Hi All, [The following is perhaps only of (any?) interest to Leaf owners, my apologies for wasting everyone else's time)]:
Our 2011 Leaf (56K miles) just this week started reporting 5 (white) bars (& 2 red, which Nissan says is “7 bars”). Prior to ending my daily 60 mile roundtrip commute ~4 years ago, I did a 50% mix of level 1 (at work) & level 2 (at home) charging, & had performed less than a handful of level 3/DC charging (mostly just to try out the rare DC chargers in our area). With one notable exception*, I have to say the first 3-4 years was a VERY positive & trouble-free driving experience. The last 5 years has been “OK” (if not for a longing of one of Mr. Musks fine vehicles...and yes Musk Meister, me & this list do say, “your welcome”...) AFAIR, the first bar (& range) loss wasn’t until ~4 years ago (at ~40K miles). I went to our local dealer ahead of the 6-year warranty period, and even though replacement battery packs had been quoted in the $4.5K-$5K range, I was ”double smacked” in the face with 1.) my OBD ”evidence” showing level 3 charging, AND 2.) newly revised replacement packs would now run between$7.5K-$9K (dealer dependent). I have since avoided level 3 charging and the range degradation continues to relatively gradual. The Leaf “guessometer” consistently showed 107 miles during the first 2 years, & it now shows ~45-50 miles (depending on outside temp). Bottom line: For a 9 year old vehicle, it’s still a usable “grocery getter“ & for local errands. My original plan, however, was to “simply” (& affordably!) replace the traction battery (every 3-4 years?) through a dealer has sadly been dashed [Old news to this list for sure, but as a relatively early adopter, and otherwise avid EV’r, the bitter taste in my mouth for Nissan will likely never go away.] *shortly after taking delivery & with less than 4K miles, one of the pack cells shorted out. The dashboard lit up like an F-18 on fire & the telematics said to procede to the dealer ASAP! Since this was one of the first Leafs delivered on the West Coast reporting a problem, a Nissan team was brought in to analyze & assist the local dealer in dropping & replacing 2 shorted cells in the pack. This early event had no (zero, none, nada) effect on my later claims to Nissan to replace the battery pack at no or at least reduced cost😫 Best regards, Jim Waite _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
