Hi David -
Here is a long thread I started awhile back: http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=27934 >How disappointed should I be that Nissan did not include liquid battery >cooling on the Leaf E-Plus? >EditReport this postQuote >Sun Feb 17, 2019 2:23 pm You can see it's a hot button topic with a "depends on whom you ask" answer. They have not changed over to liquid cooling, and there is some question over whether using air conditioning will be super-helpful, depending on the situation. I'd say that around Tucson when I have spoken with a few people, I and one or two others are kind of in the boat of "well, maybe you've found a chemistry and pack architecture that will work, but we'll see, and meanwhile I'm not getting a new Leaf". However, I will say I know one local Leaf driver who had a replacement with the Lizard battery around 2013, and he said it was doing fine, last I asked him. Furthermore, a part of the answer which I got in that thread is that the conditions around some of the particularly hot areas in the US (and Mexico) are not necessarily representative of what is seen elsewhere, and many Leaf owners, away from the hot climates, may see very little degradation. I also think it's relevant to note "rapidgate" in Europe, such as examined here: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/07/16/2018-leaf-vs-long-journeys-can-it-take-the-heat/ >2018 Leaf vs Long Journeys Can It Take The Heat? >Twitter >LinkedIn >Facebook >July 16th, 2018 by Dr. Maximilian Holland though I don't know present status on that. Josh On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 12:58:31 -0400, EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> you wrote: >On 16 Sep 2019 at 4:03, Josh L via EV wrote: > >> the BEVs they sell are questionable on cooling (Leaf) > >Is this still a problem with the Leaf? Sheesh, it's been at least 6 years, >probably more, since the first battery degradation cases surfaced. One >would think they would have fixed it by now. > >Is it just ambient air cooling? The Leaf's cousin, the Renault Zoe, also >has an air cooled battery, but it uses the car's air con when necessary. >This is the method that the EV1 used, IIRC. > >David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA >EVDL Administrator > >= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = >EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ >= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = >Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not >reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my >email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . >= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > >_______________________________________________ >UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html >INFO: 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 ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
