alwindsor
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I am very interested to know how you know that cars after 2012 have the battery heater. This information would be quite useful to me.Any 2012 or later model year has the 300W heaters inside in the battery pack. The 2019 and later models with the 62 kWh battery don't have heaters, but some other method of warming up that I've been trying to figure out myself for years now.
Otherwise, everyone in Canada driving the larger capacity Leaf would have dead/damaged batteries from the longer time of extreme cold they experience.
I drive a 2016 SL, that dropped to 8 and then 7 bars SOH in 2023. I'm currently on the wait list for a new battery from Nissan (fingers crossed the'll actually get one for me). When I went to my dealer in Winnipeg, Canada, they got 2 different part numbers for the battery pack when they ran the VIN. One with a cold weather package (heaters), and one without. After some calls to Nissan Canada, and confirming the presence/absence of some other systems on the car, they determined that since my car was originally configured for the USA and initially delivered in Houston (I could have told them that), that it does not have the cold weather pack in it, and I would get a pack without heaters, albeit one with 40kWhr capacity.
I probed them a bit to see if I could get one with heaters (Winnipeg is cold, in case you were wondering), but they didn't seem interested or knowledgeable enough to see if it would even work, so I gave up. I tried taking it up with Nissan Canada, but they shut me down almost immediately saying that they would not install a pack that is not compatible with the original configuration of the vehicle. To be honest, I see their point, and can't blame them for avoiding that risk.
But if you have evidence that indicates that all of the North American cars, including those delivered to the southern USA have battery warmers, I'd be interested in seeing that to know if I could use it to try again with Nissan Canada to get a pack more suitable for my climate.