I recall from a conversation with a Nissan engineer in 2011, he told me that the BMS on board the Leaf was designed to limit both the charging and the discharging in order to protect the integrity of the battery pack. This was in response to my question regarding the 80% instruction in the owner's manual. In other words, his instruction to me was to go ahead and charge to the 100%, according to the instrumentation of the vehicle, as this was not the actual 100% state of charge, but rather a buffered level. The same goes for when the car goes into "turtle mode". If you insist on running until the turtle dies, the battery still has enough of a reserve to accept a charge.
-Tom On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Lawrence Rhodes via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > I noticed Lee Hart saying he doesn't charge to 100%. Why. Nissan in > their wisdom doesn't allow us to charge to 100%. So if you don't you are > more like at 70%. I now have Leaf Spy and even on slow level two charge > can't get more than 97.3%. A fast charge in 45 minutes might get as high > as 93%. It seems you can't get 100% charge in any case. So I top off > without worry. I try to avoid low charge as much as possible. Lawrence > Rhodes > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160206/dcc0e545/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- Remember, it is not that the glass is half empty, in reality, the glass is merely twice the size that it needs to be! -TNT'82 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160205/a2d26462/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
