On 03/27/2015 06:53 AM, Paul Dove via EV wrote:
My questions is.... How can you be sure? Are you positive the Leaf
instrumentation measures capacity correctly. They claim it is all an
instrumentation issue not a battery issue. The I-MiEV instructs the owner to
periodically drive the vehicle almost empty and then recharge fully to keep the
fuel gauge accurate.
If this is addressed to me.....
And if the question is "how do you know your Leaf battery had lost 30+%
of capacity"....
My Leaf initially had 90+ miles of range down to zero remaining miles
estimate and/or "turtle".
Near the end of my Leaf experience, I had the car towed twice when it
failed to reach it's destination at range of a bit more than 60 miles.
When the car was new, Steve Clunn and I ran it down to nothing to see
how it behaved. We pulled it in the last hundred yards with a golf
cart. The conclusion was: about 1 mile after "turtle".
Given that the crappy instrumentation failed to report estimated
capacity, I had to infer capacity from range.
Amusingly, I drove my imiev about 22 miles yesterday from a full
charge. The estimated range was 41 miles. At the end of the trip, the
estimated range was 43 miles. I don't know what happened. Normally,
from a full charge, the estimated range starts at 60-70 miles.
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