Stoaty said:
Volusiano said:
The battery is supposed to hold 24kwh. Assuming that Nissan only allows people to tap 70% of this (I'm just guessing here). And I lost 1 capacity bar which is 15%. So supposedly, my battery should have 24*.7*.85=14.28kwh. That's still more than the 13.64 kwh I calculated above.
So a couple of questions:
1. Is the 70% I assumed above a good guess? If not, what should it be?
2. If I'm close to losing 2 bars, then what is the 2 bar capacity loss?
1. Nissan allows you to use all of the battery except the top 5% and the bottom 2%. Effective available energy that can be drawn from the battery is considered to be around 21 kwh when battery is new (some losses in the conversion).
2. Battery capacity loss at 2 bars is 15 + 6.25 = 21.25%
Thanks for this info.
So assuming that I'm very close to 2 capacity bar loss (although I'm still showing 1 bar loss only), 21 kwh * .79 = 16.6 kwh roughly, the remaining capacity I should have.
But my calculation based on the 53 miles at 4.7 m/kwh plus the guess for the 11 miles remaining on the GOM at roughly 4.7 m/kwh is 13.6 kwh. (I'm assuming the 11 GOM is accurate enough based on my recent driving).
16.6 kwh - 13.6 khw = 3 kwh unaccounted for. Usually at around 11 or 12 miles remaining on the GOM, I get the LBW. So it could have gone on any time at that point although it didn't.
So when does VLBW go on? At 0 miles on the GOM? What should the energy remaining be between VLBW to turtle? Could it be 3 kwh which may explained for the 3 kwh unaccounted for in my calculation?