This is my first winter with my recently purchased 2022 Leaf S Plus. Things have been going really well until the last two days. We have had a little cold spell, the first of the winter and it's going to get much colder through the winter so this has me concerned.
Yesterday I woke up to -10ºF temperatures and I unplugged my fully charged pre heated to 73ºF car that was parked in my unheated garage. This really helps keep temperatures quite a bit warmer than outside, but still cold in the garage. On my 40 mile drive to work the fist 6 miles was through 8" of new snow on the un plowed road. This did cause snow to blow into the motor compartment. Other than that everything was fine. Temps in the car held up okay.
I parked the car outside at work not plugged in for about 8 hours and the temps warmed up to a high of about -1ºF during the day. When I got in the car to go home I set the heater to 75ºF and for the 45 min drive home it never produced any heat. I was a chilly ride for sure.
I got home and put the car in the garage and plugged it in. I also fired up a wood stove I have in the garage to warm things up thinking it would melt out any snow that had been compacted into the front due to driving through the snow that morning. After I went inside and got warmed up I came back out about 45 min later and turned on the car and checked the blower. It started to produce heat.
This morning on my way to work I had the same experience where I had heat on the way to work. Then I had to run to a meeting mid morning and i didn't have any heat on the way to that meeting.
Anyone have an idea what might be causing this?
One thing to note is my battery temperature has been low, but not in the too low markings.
Thanks,
Bill
Yesterday I woke up to -10ºF temperatures and I unplugged my fully charged pre heated to 73ºF car that was parked in my unheated garage. This really helps keep temperatures quite a bit warmer than outside, but still cold in the garage. On my 40 mile drive to work the fist 6 miles was through 8" of new snow on the un plowed road. This did cause snow to blow into the motor compartment. Other than that everything was fine. Temps in the car held up okay.
I parked the car outside at work not plugged in for about 8 hours and the temps warmed up to a high of about -1ºF during the day. When I got in the car to go home I set the heater to 75ºF and for the 45 min drive home it never produced any heat. I was a chilly ride for sure.
I got home and put the car in the garage and plugged it in. I also fired up a wood stove I have in the garage to warm things up thinking it would melt out any snow that had been compacted into the front due to driving through the snow that morning. After I went inside and got warmed up I came back out about 45 min later and turned on the car and checked the blower. It started to produce heat.
This morning on my way to work I had the same experience where I had heat on the way to work. Then I had to run to a meeting mid morning and i didn't have any heat on the way to that meeting.
Anyone have an idea what might be causing this?
One thing to note is my battery temperature has been low, but not in the too low markings.
Thanks,
Bill