You could try using LeafSpy to check the battery condition.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Turbo3.Leaf_Spy_Lite
Peri mentioned ventilating, but I would run it only when outdoor air
temps are at least 5 degrees below indoor air temp. Night time
pre-cooling for the following day, with added insulation.
-Chris
On 5/31/2015 2:33 PM, Willie2 via EV wrote:
On 05/31/2015 02:03 PM, Ben Goren via EV wrote:
So, Dad just drove Mom home in a 2013 Leaf. ~12k miles, California
vehicle; couldn't tell it from new. There was one bar missing from
the charge gauge; the numeric meter read, "98%."
Everybody's excited. It should be well and truly perfect for them.
One thought I had that I'm hoping somebody might be able to shed some
insight into...they'll be keeping the car in the garage, but the
garage isn't climate controlled. It probably won't quite get to
today's forecasted high of 108°F inside the garage, but it'll
definitely get rather toasty.
I've come to believe that all Leaf instrumentation is intended to
obfuscate.
I hope "2013" means they have the temperature controlled battery.
But, the "one bar down" at only 12k miles is troubling. At ~20k miles
I was "one bar down" but had only about 65% of original range. OTOH,
the current owner of my Leaf is pleased with ~50 miles of range.
Since my battery's initial degradation, we haven't had another
terrible summer and the battery seems not to have degraded much in the
past two years.
If your parents will be happy with ~50 miles, I imagine the car will
serve them at least several years. "108 deg F" means you are in
Arizona? Utah?
I believe the Leaf has a user settable charge level? If so, I would
caution them to never fully charge in the hot season.
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