On 05/31/2015 02:03 PM, Ben Goren via EV wrote:
So, Dad just drove Mom home in a 2013 Leaf. ~12k miles, California vehicle; couldn't tell
it from new. There was one bar missing from the charge gauge; the numeric meter read,
"98%."
Everybody's excited. It should be well and truly perfect for them.
One thought I had that I'm hoping somebody might be able to shed some insight
into...they'll be keeping the car in the garage, but the garage isn't climate
controlled. It probably won't quite get to today's forecasted high of 108°F
inside the garage, but it'll definitely get rather toasty.
I've come to believe that all Leaf instrumentation is intended to obfuscate.
I hope "2013" means they have the temperature controlled battery. But,
the "one bar down" at only 12k miles is troubling. At ~20k miles I was
"one bar down" but had only about 65% of original range. OTOH, the
current owner of my Leaf is pleased with ~50 miles of range. Since my
battery's initial degradation, we haven't had another terrible summer
and the battery seems not to have degraded much in the past two years.
If your parents will be happy with ~50 miles, I imagine the car will
serve them at least several years. "108 deg F" means you are in
Arizona? Utah?
I believe the Leaf has a user settable charge level? If so, I would
caution them to never fully charge in the hot season.
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