metricus said:
The car does not charge as advertised (4x kW) throughout the white range of the gauge.
Where is it "advertised"? Even if the temps weren't high, fast charging ramp down needs to happen as the battery gets fuller. Even EVs w/thermal management (e.g. Teslas and Chevy Bolts) have to do this.
metricus said:
A few relevant quotes from the manual:
Page CH-6: "Quick charging is possible (even several times a day). If the battery temperature is near the red zone, in order to protect the battery, power of the quick charger will be limited."
We already know that power throttling starts even while the gauge is in the middle. So this is a lie. Also as it has been shown many times, quick charging is not possible several times a day (not even in Norway). And by Quick charge I mean at 43kW not throttled charge. So there's another lie or "falsehood" as we like to call them since 2016.
I frankly don't think you're going to win an argument of "lie", false "advertising" or "falsehood" by inferring that bolded part. Glancing thru the '19 Leaf manual, and prior manuals, like the '13 Leaf manual, the only reason why they use the term "quick charge" is to refer to the CHAdeMO inlet and CHAdeMO stations. They have 3 categories: "trickle" charge (J1772 120 volt L1), "normal charge" (J1772, basically 208 to 240 volts), "quick charge" which is CHAdeMO. I didn't notice any sort of guarantee or promise or advertising that you'd get any specific charge rate other than "up to 50 kW" and they have all sorts of disclaimers as conditions as to why it might not be high.
Heck, in Japan, they apparently have CHAdeMO chargers as low at 6 kW: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/chademo-make-model-review-%E2%80%94-using-with-a-tesla.42176/page-8#post-961564.
Page 18 of https://web.archive.org/web/20160317120653/http://avt.inl.gov/pdf/prog_info/IEA_DCFCImpactStudySept2014.pdf has curves for the '13 Leaf w/the car at 0, 25 and 50 C. And, as the battery degrades, quick charging isn't so quick, as some people have found out the hard way w/degraded batteries.
I am glad you finally got Leaf Spy so that you can see the battery temps.