Gen 1 Leafs may make good candidates for battery pack retrofits IF someone figures out how to keep the car happy with the replacement pack using better cells with higher energy density.
Compared to traditional ICE conversions...a lot of useful hardware is already in place, but using that hardware means keeping OEM control electronics happy, possibly via simulated inputs. Leaf cars are pretty solid otherwise. (Well, IIRC, there are some reports from ~2012/2013 in the Leaf forums of diodes failing in the onboard charger when used with some early EVSEs that turned out to be incompatible.) On Dec 12, 2018 20:28, "George Tyler via EV" <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: I am thinking, it all depends on what is acceptable range? 50% loss over 5 years, so in a year it's 40%, 2 year 30%, so probably not worth paying NZ$10k (US$6,600) for? -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of Willie via EV Sent: 13 December, 2018 11:39 AM To: ev@lists.evdl.org Cc: Willie Subject: Re: [EVDL] Buying a leaf, SOH, GID etc On 12/12/18 4:33 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV wrote: > Is this not the case with lithium? Is a lithium battery with 68% of spec > capacity still considered usable? There are a LOT of Leafs driving around with less than 50%. Nissan invariably tells the owners that it is normal and to be expected. I haven't seen, or had direct knowledge of, a Tesla going below about 90%. However, Tesla repairs/replaces a lot of batteries presumably because of dead cells or other problems that the owners may not notice. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20181212/2227ed10/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
