Recent content by BiggieJohn

An owner on the LEAF Facebook owner group was out of warranty and posted his service invoice, it showed these prices, and the discount applied by Nissan since he was <60K miles, but just past 5 years

retail price of a new battery is $6500 delivered to a dealer. - $1000 "core charge" when the old batteyr is returned by a delaer $250 for the adapter harness required for 2011/2012/Q1-2013 cars $550 shop labor (standard rates quoted by Nissan) so about $6300 is you are paying cash to replace...

The old 24Kw battery had 22.5Kw usable. I guess I need to do a full range test one of these days and make sure I have LeafSpy running the whole time to see how much gets used.

I recently had my 2012 battery replaced under warranty. Notice the Ahr is 66.14. at full charge, 395V * 66.14Ahr = 26kw hmmmm

Nissan is offering pro-rated discounts for over warranty call 1-877-NogasEv once you drop to 8 bars and see what they offer you. a good story about how you cant make your commute anymore helps :)

Last post, since I now have a brand new battery, needs a few balancing cycles, but I'm already much happier, I have regen on a almost full battery.

Warranty claim submitted by dealer 5/29.17. New battery arrived TODAY, 6/5/17. 6 DAYS !!!!! Working with the service dept to get a date scheduled for the replacement., probably next week.

Most ChaDeMo chargers need 3 phase power because it's 477V AC, so it can easily be stepped down slightly and rectified to the 365V-385V DCrequired for a EV battery. 220V AC rectified to DC is only about 250V DC, way too low to charge a EV battery.

40A is the "over rating" for a 30A aka 7Kw. 3.6Kw chargers are 15A. If both cars have 6.6Kw chargers then you would need to stagger charging times. Only Teslas can actually use 40A or even up to 80A with a proper Tesla HPWC, but those are mainly intended for commercial locations.

2012-14 Smart Ed http://advancedextrication.com/2014/01/service-safety-disconnects/ leaf hasnt changed body config much, so it's the same for 2015 and 2016, I assume 2017 also http://www.evsafetytraining.org/~/media/electric%20vehicle/files/nissan/2015-nissan-leaf-frg.pdf?la=en

- I always thought standardized instructions should be under the hood, near the firewall, but in a front end collision that might be crushed bad enough they cant get to it. Prying open the hood is the easy part for firefighters if the car is already wrecked. - Some safety vs design tradeoffs...

Wow, this is wrong in so many ways. Firefighters are trained to NEVER, under any circumstances, cut any orange cable in a EV/PHEV/Hybrid. If the car is "off", cutting the 12V battery cable will give some safety since there will be no voltage present outside the high voltage battery itself. To...

When i got my 2012 used, it had a serious problem, was only getting about 18 miles on a full charge, but showed 10 bars. I didnt have leafspy right away, so no pics of what the situation was, but I took it to my local dealer and Nissan had him tear the battery down to replace 2 modules. Those 2...

I finally killed it. 43731 miles Lowest Ahr was 41.81 yesterday, and Hx% was 42.59 crept up a bit today fast charging, something strange - notice in the leafspy screencap, Ahr jumped up to 41.94 (at 41.95 not that I plugged it in to charge) and HX% went to 42.70 also, I had previosuly been...

I put Bridgestone DriveGaurd (run flat) tires on my cars, don't have to worry about a spare, or even a flat. I've driven 10 miles on a slashed sidewall to the Firestone shop, handled ok, enough to get me off the highway safely, just cant push it much past 40-45mph. I have never noticed any...