I thought we beat this horse already in the test results thread?evnow said:I appreciate the test Tony and others did - but it gave us no results apart from the well know fact that both GOM & capacity bars are unreliable. We can't separate instrumentation error from actual range, since the range Leaf allows depends on instrumentation. So we don't know whether the loss of range is because of capacity loss or instrumentation problem.
Phil has confirmed that battery pack voltage readings are accurate using an external high precision Fluke, so we have no reason to disbelieve those readings. For the cars that were run to turtle, they all stopped with similar voltages - definitely beyond the knee where voltage drops rapidly with little remaining charge. All the cars were charged to 100% which has been shown to vary by perhaps a volt or two at most. The results of the range test strongly correlate with bar/GID loss, though not as much as one might predict by the bar/GID loss. Andy Palmer confirmed that the capacity meter is pessimistic in his interview with Chelsea Sexton.
I don't see any reason to NOT to see Tony's results as valid - LEAFs exposed to Phoenix heat are losing capacity and range far faster than cooler climates.