Mark, The Leaf charges to approx 4.12V as "100%" (LeafSpy shows this around actual 90% real SoC - not always consistent, I have seen 89% and over 91%) and to approx 4.05V as "80%" (again, sometimes closer to 4.04 and sometimes closer to 4.06V) The lowest that I have ever seen my Leaf SoC was just above 15% real SoC on LeafSpy with the cells around 3.7V, the Leaf itself indicates this as empty, so I believe that the top and bottom 10+% are not used by the Leaf to avoid the extremes where the internal resistance of the cells rises and heat develops faster, leading to faster degradation.
NOTE that even when discharged to 50%, the Leaf BMS will still be balancing the cells, it is always on as it has only 10mA balancing capacity so it is balancing all the time as long as the 12V battery is connected. I have even seen it occasionally balancing a cell with SoC below 20% but it will be much more aggressive at high SoC. Hope this clarifies, Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless office +1 408 383 7626 Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP +31 87 784 1130 private: cvandewater.info http://www.proxim.com This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information of Proxim Wireless Corporation. If you received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of Mark Hanson via EV Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 11:13 AM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Cc: L. David Roper Subject: [EVDL] How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries - Battery University Hi folks It looks like in NMC lithium charging to 4.2 vpc is 300-500 cycles or to 4.1 is 600-1000 cycles or 4.0 is 2400-4000 cycles. Certainly overcharging is bad but I've seen other studies on high mileage Leafs in England that were 100% charged that showed little degradation after 50k miles. Just trying to figure based on real data if charging to 80% which loses the balancing function or going to 100% on my Leaf on each cycle is best. I assume Nissan isn't overcharging their cells on each cycle. It looks from the Leaf spy that most cells are at 4.0 volts at 100% charge. Does anyone have EOC data on the Leaf? My son drives it daily 15 miles round trip and then plugs in at home to 100% Thanks mark http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_ batteries Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
