Jan Galkowski
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Newbie to this Forum here.
Just received our new Nissan LEAF SV Plus, eliminating the last ICE vehicle.
Just received our new Nissan LEAF SV Plus, eliminating the last ICE vehicle.
Hope to hear your experience with fast charging on road trips.Newbie to this Forum here.
Just received our new Nissan LEAF SV Plus, eliminating the last ICE vehicle.
The problem is that with the subsequent charges the charging rate is throttled from the 40+kW range (this is for the 2018 Leaf) to the low 20's and finally into the teens making each charging time ever longer than the previous one. It's fine if you have time on your hands but really limits the potential travel distance per day.Why hopeless for trips demanding more than one fast charge? My wife and I took a trip to upstate New York in October 2020 with the Tesla 3 and it needed 3 real charges to get there and be usable. The trick with the Tesla, which applies to the LEAF, is that you only charge enough to get to the next charger.
Tesla does that in their route planning automatically. You need to do that manually using PlugShare or whichever with the LEAF.
The trip to Ithaca, NY, and back was very fine. What was different about your experience?
The Leaf measures the battery temperature. If the temperature exceeds a certain level the charging rate is reduced.Seriously? That would require either there be (1) some coordination among charging stations recognizing a particular copy of LEAF and implementing that policy, or (2) the LEAF itself has some memory of the charging sequence and manages this purported "throttling" on its own. That's very peculiar.
Nissan is allowing higher battery temperatures before throttling, so this should be less of an issue. One test I've seen here on InsideEVs showed that there wasn't an issue with the larger battery vehicle. Perhaps a bigger issue is charging with a cold battery.That's why I'm curious as to how it is with the Leaf Plus. The larger battery in itself reduces the number of times you need to charge and the maximum rate is up to 100kW so that's a reduction in charging time, but with multiple charging during set day is there a similar throttling of the rate?
The Leaf measures the battery temperature. If the temperature exceeds a certain level the charging rate is reduced.
Originally, there was rapid gate.
See Bjorn's test.
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/07/16/2018-leaf-vs-long-journeys-can-it-take-the-heat/
Then there was a software update that allowed a higher charge rate at higher battery temperatures.
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/01/05/nissan-leaf-rapidgate-mostly-solved-by-software-update/