adric22
Well-known member
I know there have been endless discussions on this forum about the GOM. But I've had my Leaf for over 3 years and 30,000 miles and this is the first time I've seen this.
I'll start out by saying I lost my second capacity bar a week or two ago. I only lost the first bar a few months before that. So it is weird that I went over 2 years with 12 bars and now I've lost 2 rather suddenly.
However, here's the weird thing. I drive the car mostly to work and back and other short trips, usually less than 10 miles before a recharge. It's pretty rare I take the car out on a longer trip, especially since the weather got cold. But I needed to go to my brother's house yesterday which is about 25 miles one direction, almost all of the way is freeway. I have made this trip many times before, just not recently. Add to that, I have made the trip in our Volt one time and managed the entire trip on battery power.
So I arrived at his house yesterday and the battery SOC bars had dropped to 4, suggesting I had less than half of my range still available. However, it showed on the GOM that I could go 37 more miles, which is more than the 25 I needed to go. I could have charged at a nearby station, but I wanted to see if my capacity was really that low. So I decided to drive on home. I figured if it didn't make it, I'd call Nissan roadside assistance and have it towed. I really needed to know if the car had lost that much capacity that I could no longer make a 50 mile trip in good weather conditions.
So, to end the story, I arrived home with 1 bar remaining on the SOC bars and the GOM still reading 23 miles remaining. There had been no battery low warnings or anything. In the past when I've seen just 1 bar left I usually have less than 10 miles remaining and would have gotten a battery low warning. It is strange that I consumed 8 bars on the trip there, and only 3 on the trip back.
I'm wondering if my car just needed to get a deeper cycle to get things calibrated again. I noticed when I got into my car this morning the GOM showed 85 miles of range, which is the highest I've seen in ages. Normally it shows around 65 miles in the morning on a full charge.
I'll start out by saying I lost my second capacity bar a week or two ago. I only lost the first bar a few months before that. So it is weird that I went over 2 years with 12 bars and now I've lost 2 rather suddenly.
However, here's the weird thing. I drive the car mostly to work and back and other short trips, usually less than 10 miles before a recharge. It's pretty rare I take the car out on a longer trip, especially since the weather got cold. But I needed to go to my brother's house yesterday which is about 25 miles one direction, almost all of the way is freeway. I have made this trip many times before, just not recently. Add to that, I have made the trip in our Volt one time and managed the entire trip on battery power.
So I arrived at his house yesterday and the battery SOC bars had dropped to 4, suggesting I had less than half of my range still available. However, it showed on the GOM that I could go 37 more miles, which is more than the 25 I needed to go. I could have charged at a nearby station, but I wanted to see if my capacity was really that low. So I decided to drive on home. I figured if it didn't make it, I'd call Nissan roadside assistance and have it towed. I really needed to know if the car had lost that much capacity that I could no longer make a 50 mile trip in good weather conditions.
So, to end the story, I arrived home with 1 bar remaining on the SOC bars and the GOM still reading 23 miles remaining. There had been no battery low warnings or anything. In the past when I've seen just 1 bar left I usually have less than 10 miles remaining and would have gotten a battery low warning. It is strange that I consumed 8 bars on the trip there, and only 3 on the trip back.
I'm wondering if my car just needed to get a deeper cycle to get things calibrated again. I noticed when I got into my car this morning the GOM showed 85 miles of range, which is the highest I've seen in ages. Normally it shows around 65 miles in the morning on a full charge.
