On 29 Dec 2024 at 7:25, Lawrence Rhodes via EV wrote: > However it charges slow and the > batteries are less than stellar. Very fast degradation.
Is the Leaf still having battery problems? I know that the early ones did. I've never fully understood why that was so. The Leaf was developed more or less in tandem with the Renault Zoe, at a time when Nissan and Renault had a strong partnership. You'd think that they'd have designed them similarly, but they didn't. For one thing, they were built on totally different platforms. The original Leaf was based on the Nissan Versa, and the Zoe on the Clio (never sold in the US), a smaller and lighter car. The original Zoe charged at 43kW on 3-phase AC power, meaning that with its original 22kWh battery a 20-80% charge could take as little as 20 minutes under ideal conditions. And even though it also used air cooling for the battery, the Zoe never had the same kind of degradation problems. Zoe used a different type of cell, and also was pretty aggressive about using the car's aircon to stabilize the battery temperature. I don't know for sure, but I suspect that Nissan's corporate culture might have bought into "what could those French people know that we don't?" - such that they were sure they had all the right answers, even when their EV proved to be clearly more troublesome than their partner's. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = I tried donating blood today. Never again! Too many annoying questions. Whose blood is it? Where did you get it? Why is it in a bucket? -- Found on the net = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
