ebeighe
Well-known member
I'm relatively new to Leaf, since July.
I live in Phoenix so temperatures are relatively high
I've made a particular trip about 2X per week and according to leafspy, the net power is usually a little less than 900W.
(it's slightly downhill; 7.5miles, all "in town" traffic which here means ~ 40mph arterial streets, for a remarkable 8.3 miles/KW)
However, sometimes the power is remarkably higher. Today it was 1200W; and nothing about the trip seemed any different than usual.
I get that if the battery is fully charged when i start, there will be less regen and therefore expectedly higher net power on a trip. Today the car was charging up until when i left, but was nowhere near fully charged (78% according to the car IIRC)
And also, differences in of regen (according to the leafsyp trip log) wouldn't explain the large differences.
Battery temperature today was 72F upon departure. Had i not been charging the temp would have been about 60F
Is there something about it being recently charging? Is the extra power really being used, or is it just some artifact?
I live in Phoenix so temperatures are relatively high
I've made a particular trip about 2X per week and according to leafspy, the net power is usually a little less than 900W.
(it's slightly downhill; 7.5miles, all "in town" traffic which here means ~ 40mph arterial streets, for a remarkable 8.3 miles/KW)
However, sometimes the power is remarkably higher. Today it was 1200W; and nothing about the trip seemed any different than usual.
I get that if the battery is fully charged when i start, there will be less regen and therefore expectedly higher net power on a trip. Today the car was charging up until when i left, but was nowhere near fully charged (78% according to the car IIRC)
And also, differences in of regen (according to the leafsyp trip log) wouldn't explain the large differences.
Battery temperature today was 72F upon departure. Had i not been charging the temp would have been about 60F
Is there something about it being recently charging? Is the extra power really being used, or is it just some artifact?