finman100
Well-known member
So, after doing some searching and not finding an answer I want to ask the forum: Will the Leaf cease to operate if the battery gets too hot?
Reason I ask is I recently bested my 360 miles in a day and traveled 450 miles in one (long!) day. I had to check out the fartherest east (Arlington, OR) I could go on I-84 in the Columbia Gorge, Oregon side. Suffice it to say it was awesome! 8 QCs with one L2 session in the middle. But i'm an over-eager EV nut with my Leaf coming up on 1 year old. I can't get enough EV travel.
So the max AVG temp of the battery was 122 F. 11 bars of temp showed on the left side of the Leaf display, so one bar into the red, but not a 12-bar temp! Ambient was between 60 F and 84 F. I am using LeafStat with a wifi adapter that my iPhone displays. Not as comprehensive as LeafSpy but less expensive and simply does what I need it to do (kwh, battery temp, battery SOH, Gids, and tire pressure).
Would the Leaf shutdown whilst in motion due to heat? Would it simply not QC or even L2 charge?
Nothing was out of the ordinary after the 4th QC other than a 100 F AVG battery temp. Drove, accelerated, braked (regen) as it always does. No driving differences at 122 F AVG battery temp.
Thanks for any input to this query.
Curt
Reason I ask is I recently bested my 360 miles in a day and traveled 450 miles in one (long!) day. I had to check out the fartherest east (Arlington, OR) I could go on I-84 in the Columbia Gorge, Oregon side. Suffice it to say it was awesome! 8 QCs with one L2 session in the middle. But i'm an over-eager EV nut with my Leaf coming up on 1 year old. I can't get enough EV travel.
So the max AVG temp of the battery was 122 F. 11 bars of temp showed on the left side of the Leaf display, so one bar into the red, but not a 12-bar temp! Ambient was between 60 F and 84 F. I am using LeafStat with a wifi adapter that my iPhone displays. Not as comprehensive as LeafSpy but less expensive and simply does what I need it to do (kwh, battery temp, battery SOH, Gids, and tire pressure).
Would the Leaf shutdown whilst in motion due to heat? Would it simply not QC or even L2 charge?
Nothing was out of the ordinary after the 4th QC other than a 100 F AVG battery temp. Drove, accelerated, braked (regen) as it always does. No driving differences at 122 F AVG battery temp.
Thanks for any input to this query.
Curt