First to 100+ Miles

Who was the first to make 100 miles plus on a charge, when compared to your total miles on your Leaf? Tonight I broke 100 (102.2 actually), as I hit 455 total miles on the car. My car has had 5 charges, the first by the dealer and 4 by me. I got 93 miles on the first charge, which was my best until tonight's.

N1ghtrider said:

Who was the first to make 100 miles plus on a charge, when compared to your total miles on your Leaf? Tonight I broke 100 (102.2 actually), as I hit 455 total miles on the car. My car has had 5 charges, the first by the dealer and 4 by me. I got 93 miles on the first charge, which was my best until tonight's.

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Nice. I imagine that in Florida 100+ miles is pretty easy. I lose 500' of elevation every time I leave the house, which makes that feat a bit harder if I want to return home on the same charge, which is why I almost always charge to 80%.

N1ghtrider said:

Who was the first to make 100 miles plus on a charge, when compared to your total miles on your Leaf? Tonight I broke 100 (102.2 actually), as I hit 455 total miles on the car. My car has had 5 charges, the first by the dealer and 4 by me. I got 93 miles on the first charge, which was my best until tonight's.

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Nicely done! Please consider making a report in this thread:

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To your question: I'm not sure who was first. There were early attempts by reporters, but we don't know who was the first owner to break the 100-mile barrier.

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This is just my personal opinion, but I suspect that Nissan might have dialed down usable battery capacity between the early cars and what we are using today. That would be the only explanation I could think of when looking at Nick's 116.1 miles, and other reports that indicate as much as 22.5 or 23 kWh of usable capacity.

well, i am probably the last one (of ones who have done it) on the odometer. i was probably around 8,000 miles or so when i went over 100 miles (only have done it once and i had to "pad" the day with an extra 10+ miles or so to get there) . i did do 120+ miles right after i got it but had 2 boost charges during the trip.

You must be new here..Some of us get 130+ miles per charge...I think Leaffan was close to the 150 mile charge contest..I thought the really cold air would help in the 150 mile charge but it was quite the opposite,you get worst mileage in cold weather..

N1ghtrider said:

Who was the first to make 100 miles plus on a charge, when compared to your total miles on your Leaf? Tonight I broke 100 (102.2 actually), as I hit 455 total miles on the car. My car has had 5 charges, the first by the dealer and 4 by me. I got 93 miles on the first charge, which was my best until tonight's.

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Just to clarify, your LEAF physically drove 102 miles on a single charge? Not an estimate from the GuessOmeter?

mark13 said:

You must be new here..Some of us get 130+ miles per charge...I think Leaffan was close to the 150 mile charge contest..I thought the really cold air would help in the 150 mile charge but it was quite the opposite,you get worst mileage in cold weather..

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Really? You physically have driven 130 miles on a single charge, or as is usually the case, is that your GuessOmeter estimate or your own "projection"?

I do not believe LEAFfan has broke 100 miles yet.

TonyWilliams said:

I do not believe LEAFfan has broke 100 miles yet.

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As I've said before, I could have easily gone over 100 miles on an 80% charge many times. At the time, I saw no need to actually drive it when my m/kW h on the dash was 6.5 after 85 miles or so. When I arrived home, there was still plenty of SOC/two bars left to easily drive over 15 miles if I had chose to do so. There is/was no need to drive the '100' miles to prove this. I always recharged the car when I arrived home in case I needed it later, so I wouldn't leave it with two bars. You people that are bragging about actually driving the 100 miles on 100%, let me know when you can do it on 80% and let me know when your dash m/kW h reaches 6.5 on an 80-100 mile trip. The GOM can be inaccurate, but not the dash m/kW h meter. And don't even go there with a 100% charge...easily well over 100 miles! :mrgreen:

Just to clarify, your LEAF physically drove 102 miles on a single charge? Not an estimate from the GuessOmeter?[/quote]

Yes indeed! 102.2 miles on my 5th charge , with 455 total miles on the car.

LEAFfan said:

You people that are bragging about actually driving the 100 miles on 100%, let me know when you can do it on 80% and let me know when your dash m/kW h reaches 6.5 on an 80-100 mile trip. The GOM can be inaccurate, but not the dash m/kW h meter. And don't even go there with a 100% charge...easily well over 100 miles! :mrgreen:

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LEAFfan, I believe that your very efficient driving techniques are widely recognized on this forum, and we had some good collaboration earlier this year. Just to be clear, I don't think that anyone is 'bragging' about having driven 100 miles on a charge. In my opinion, it's a methodical exercise, along with good record keeping to help establish broader and practical performance metrics. Something that could be a useful reference to others. I really appreciate Tony's leadership on this, and I found the information compiled on this forum very helpful.

To return to the original topic (whether thought of as "bragging" or just reporting), has anyone beat my accomplishment of getting at least 100 miles on a single charge before having 500 miles on the Leaf? :?:

Hey Roy
I can with 100% certainty say you are the first to break the 100 Mile barrier in Florida I for one would be proud of myself to reach that number


Nice job mate

Thank you my friend. Will you be at Delray meeting on Jan 14?

Yes Mate see ya there

LEAFfan said:

TonyWilliams said:

I do not believe LEAFfan has broke 100 miles yet.

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You people that are bragging about actually driving the 100 miles on 100%, let me know when you can do it on 80% and let me know when your dash m/kW h reaches 6.5 on an 80-100 mile trip.

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And you people need to hit 100 miles once! Heck, you should just go straight for the 200km milestone.

May the record reflect that I was the first on the forum to beat 200 km on a single charge.

A reporter, Nick Chambers, drove 116.1 miles on a LEAF test drive back in Oct 2010. I've driven 111 miles once (100% charge), a year ago.

Here's anotherLEAF range test conducted by Edmunds Inside Line in May 2011. They went 132.0 miles. I think LEAF long range club should be at least 125 miles rather than 100 miles. Anyone with enough time and driving 35mph or less on relatively flat roads could do 100 miles easily.

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ENIAC said:

Here's anotherLEAF range test conducted by Edmunds Inside Line in May 2011. They went 132.0 miles. I think LEAF long range club should be at least 125 miles rather than 100 miles. Anyone with enough time and driving 35mph or less on relatively flat roads could do 100 miles easily.

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Ya, I hear the "easily" often. What I don't hear "easily" is actually performance.

The Edmonds run is the second listed for 100 miles, behind Nick Chambers. Also, Edmonds.com is listed for 200km

ENIAC said:

A reporter, Nick Chambers, drove 116.1 miles on a LEAF test drive back in Oct 2010. I've driven 111 miles once (100% charge), a year ago.

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This run by Nick was done in Oct 2010, months before the first LEAF delivery. Because he drove 116 miles at 5.1 miles/kWh, that means there was 22.7kWh in the battery to use.

What was the ambient air temperature during this run ? We don't know, but considering when and where it was done, I don't think it was over 100F/40C. Because it was driven by a pre-production car, I suspect that the cell voltages were at 4.2v per cell, and not the 4.1v of the production car.

There are references in some of the documents to a 403v battery (96 cell pairs * 4.2v), but the current production car has about 21kWh available at 70F/20C temperature, and has 393.5v with 4.1v per cell. That capacity decreases about 1% per 4F/2C temperature decrease below 70F/20C.

Nick's calculated battery capacity of 22.7kWh (8% above 21kWh) is significantly above that standard, and could be explained either by higher cell voltage, or extreme battery temperature of over 100F/40C.