DeaneG
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I wonder how long a fully-charged Leaf can be left in an airport parking lot before it runs down significantly. On most ordinary cars, this is about a month.
DeaneG said:I wonder how long a fully-charged Leaf can be left in an airport parking lot before it runs down significantly. On most ordinary cars, this is about a month.
Wow! That would be fantastic. The aux battery in the Prius we have is tiny, like a motorcycle battery. When it went dead the car was totally dead, even if the big battery was charged. And don't get me started on what you had to go through to hook up an external charger.darelldd said:(one neat thing about the EV1 was that it had a "jump" button under the dash. If your Aux battery died, you could manually jump it from the traction pack by just holding a button. Neat!)
And then, of course, the SL package would change the calculation on this as well - leave the car in the sun, and you get that trickle charge for the 12v battery.garygid said:Assuming the traction battery is disconnected when the car is "off", then the 12v battery would need to power any electronics that continues to draw power.
Just 10 ma drain would be 0.24 amp hours per day, or one amp-hour every 4 days. So, a 20 amp-hour battery might last 80 days, less considering self-discharge.
But, we do not know how much the off-current will be.
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