Well damn. my 2015 when new, says 85miles on full charge, so now its 7yrs old so that brings me down to 40 miles@10%. If I go with a 7.5% degradation, that leaves me at 49.25 miles. I'm wondering how I can get an accurate reading of what a full charge gets me now. When will the leaf actually shut down? At 10% remaining? 5%, 2%? At least with my gas truck, I can toss a can of gas in the bed, and see how far the needle goes before i run dry, and gas back up after. But with an EV?
LeafSpy Pro is your friend. I had a 2013 Leaf and went through 2 batteries (original and warranty replacement). Even after babying it at 80% in AZ heat, it was down to 7 bars on the new battery after 5 years. I am now in a Bolt and love active battery cooling. Leaf Spy will give you great readings and will change settings on it as well if you like.
Hmm.. well, this is a former AZ leaf, and I am in Vegas, so the heat will def be a factor. I'll look into this LeafSpy Pro.. do I need any hardware for it?
Android phone. OBD2 plugin device. I have the Bluetooth LE version. How many bars you have left?
Android check, OBD2, nope.
The one on the far right side. You have 9 bars left on your battery for capacity. The first bar is 12%, after that each bar is like 6-8%. The yellow light is showing low tire pressure. You might wanna pump them up to 38 PSI or so to help max out range. The range meter is also referred to as the guess-o-meter. You are past the 5 year warranty for battery capacity so you will have to pay out of pocket when you get it replaced. That should be a 30kWh battery yes? I don't think they make those anymore so you would need to goto the 40kWh version.
Its the 24kWh battery. I don't think I wanna know how much it costs to replace a leaf battery though. is it crazy $$?
Mine was garage kept the entire time. I bought it 10 bars. It dropped 2 bars in 9 months. I qualified for capacity loss warranty and got a "new" lizard battery replacement. I sold it 3 months ago with 7 bars left. Cooling is a HUGE factory with those batteries for longevity. Arizona, Nevada, hot places suck for these cars.
I used a small powerstrip to plug into the inverter for convenience, but basically, I used one of those male extension cord repair ends, jumpered the ground and neutral, plugged it into the strip, then plugged my charger into the strip, and all was good.
So, I hit 2 different charge stations yesterday, one in the walmart superstore in henderson, and another at one of the terrible Herbst gas stations, neither one had the right connector! Mine is the j1772 connector. So I have not been able to charge anywhere but at home, which is ok, because its free here! But still, I wonder if most of these charge stations are compatible with my car
I don't get it J1772 is L2 standard for low speed chargers commercially available....are you hitting fast DC charging stations instead of AC J1772 standard?
I used a smaller plug, but yes, that is how I got the charger to work.
Are you talking about the DC fast charge? J1772 is the small plug, the big blue one is CHAdeMO. Are you using the Plugshare app to find charging stations?
I looked up the two stations that you mentioned, near Sunset & Stephanie in Henderson. I think those are the ones that you went to. Just by pure luck (or lack of luck) those two stations only have fast DC chargers, and they use CHAdeMO connectors. They charge $0.30+ per minute to use. My 2012 Leaf has a CHAdeMo connector, but I'm not certain all Leaf models have that. If you go to Sunset Station right across the street from there, in the back parking structure, they have 2 regular J1772 chargers for you to use free of charge. They are located at the closest parking spots next to the elevators on the ground floor. The last time I was there was over two years ago. Back then you can just pull into the spot and plug in without using any app to unlock them. Last I heard all Station Hotels upgraded their EV chargers, so you may need to get an app for whatever system they use now.
Yikes! That looks dangerous.
I did not use the app to find the stations, but it turns out the two I hit were fast charge stations only. My Luck! My leaf only has the j1772 connector, so its L1 or L2 only for me! It came with the 110/120V trickle charge unit, (which actually charges at 11.5A) and I bought a L2 Lectron 240V 16A J1772 unit, so I'm set at home!
Cool, ill swing by there and have a look see. So, your 2012 DOES have chademo. My 2015 SV does not! Only J1772. I wonder if that means my onboard charger is the 3.3kw or the 6.6kw just without the optional chademo connector?
