On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Thos True <[email protected]> wrote: > According to one Nissan engineer that I spoke with in 2011, the Leaf is > designed to not charge above 80% nor discharge below 20%, which corresponds > to the on on-board display's full and empty.
The LEAF has an actual battery capacity of 24 kWh as advertised. Nissan lets you use about 21 kWh of the 24 kWh. A 100% charge will charge the pack to about 94% total capacity. A 80% charge will charge the pack to about 77% total capacity. The first low battery warning comes on around 17% total capacity. The 2nd low battery warning comes on around 9% total capacity. The car goes into turtle mode around 2% total capacity and shuts down shortly afterwards. Voltage plots against charge confirm that these numbers are pretty close. Nissan is reserving no-where close to 20% on the top and bottom for actual use. This might be the case if the engineer really meant that they normally expect people to only charge to 80% and to charge up again by the time they get to the first low battery warning. -Dave _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
