> On Dec 13, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Lee Hart via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Also, range is significantly reduced in winter. They may claim a 100 mile > range, but 80 miles is more like it, and only 50 in winter. Nissan (like most > big companies) suffers from Not Invented Here syndrome, which means they > ignored EV history and experience and didn't provide battery heaters. (One of > my projects is to see if I can add them). > Their range estimates are way off. I managed to get 81 miles once when my 2011 leaf was a year old. I had to limit my top speed on limited access highways to 50MPH. That was in June in the San Francisco Bay Area with the temperature in the mid 80sF.
Today I will get about 65 miles. The temperature when I left this morning was 45F. The car was preheated in my garage (67F) and I only used the climate control sparingly to keep the windows from fogging up. My route today I will take me to a few miles past the very low battery warning when the display shuts off. It will take less than 5 hours to recharge to 100%. At 3.3KWH that is about 16.5KWH capacity. That is pretty far from the advertised 24KWH capacity. My Leaf is 41 months old with 37,000 miles. I lost one capacity bar at about 33,000 miles. I'm not complaining about my car, just the misleading advertising. I did like the Honda EVPlus better. It did have 100 mile real world range which lasted without noticeable degradation for six years. Then they took it back. Ed _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
