I also have a 2013, original battery was 10 bars when I bought it in 2019, done 25K km since then, battery dropped to 7 bars this year. I found another 2013 battery with 10 bars, had dome more kms than mine. So far it's still at 10 bars. Here in NZ 2013 is the worst for battery degradation, almost every leaf for sale cheap is 2013, but some are still at 11 bars. I don't know how to tell if it's a lizard though.
-----Original Message----- From: EV On Behalf Of Ken Olum via EV Sent: Friday, 18 November 2022 4:47 am To: ev@lists.evdl.org Cc: Ken Olum <k...@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu> Subject: Re: [EVDL] Leaf battery replacement ? From: "Peri Hartman" <pe...@kotatko.com> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 02:12:45 +0000 How do the "lizard" batteries perform in cold weather? I haven't paid careful attention to ours, but there was certainly not some huge problem in the cold. Regardless of range, you're saying the lizard battery won't degrade as quickly ? Yes. At 95K miles or so, I think our original 2013 battery was down to 7 (maybe 6) bars of battery health out of 12. We replaced it with a 2015 battery which had 11 bars even though it had 85K miles or so. 7000 miles later, it is still at 11. My experience with the OEM battery is roughly 50% range at 25F versus 70F. This is pretty terrible. When we had cars with lead-acid batteries we saw this level of temperature sensitivity, but it shouldn't be so much with lithium. Was it this bad originally or only after your battery got old? Is it often 25F in Seattle? If I buy a used lizard that has, say 60 mile range at 70F, what can I expect at 25F ? _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
