Radio NZ are now reporting on the battery issue.

EVsEnhanced:

 

I've already conducted this test and my results were quite different than what your Nissan Tech contact said.  The battery had an actual SoH around 90%.  Starting at 100% with a reset and cycling close to end to end to help the BMS learn quickly, the SoH in the BMS approached the actual SoH like a decaying exponential curve.  It dropped very quickly at the start and was down to 95% within two cycles. Actually on the first cycle nothing happened (stuck on 100%), but in the second discharge cycle it dropped 5% after quite a short drive. But it took many more cycles (over a week of driving) to get to about 92% and another couple of weeks after that to settle back to 90%.

 

My source mentioned that re-calibration happens only above certain temperature. There are two opinions from two sources abroad: no re-calibration of SOH if temperature is below a) 10C  b) 20C. If later true and it was cold in ChCh during tests - that may influenced tests a bit. Those "many more cycles" in 3 weeks - suppose were only partial and not full 100% charges / discharges to turtle, hence re-calibration could've taken a bit longer.

Overall - 3 weeks is fast enough, so when people are complaining about something like 8% drop in few months - that may just be the degradation of the battery by itself, perhaps as a result of fast chargers and long drives with multiple charges along the way and overheating of the pack as a result. 

afe66: A bog standard leaf can only use 16A or 3.3kW no matter how much is available from the socket.

On a different note, for those with Japanese imports: Does anybody know what the announcements are while driving? They seem to occur at random times. They are also different from the welcome message on start up.

IcI:

On a different note, for those with Japanese imports: Does anybody know what the announcements are while driving? They seem to occur at random times. They are also different from the welcome message on start up.

Hi everyone, very interested in a Nissan Leaf. 

Then went to a car yard website that sells a lot of them and saw some Plug in Hybrid Priuses.

Leaf vs Plug in hybrid thoughts please??

dunnersdude:

Hi everyone, very interested in a Nissan Leaf. 

Then went to a car yard website that sells a lot of them and saw some Plug in Hybrid Priuses.

 

Leaf vs Plug in hybrid thoughts please??

wellygary:

dunnersdude:

 

Hi everyone, very interested in a Nissan Leaf. 

Then went to a car yard website that sells a lot of them and saw some Plug in Hybrid Priuses.

 

Leaf vs Plug in hybrid thoughts please??

 

Plug in Prius range is ~25k...... + you have to carry an ICE around as well..... Whats your attraction to the Leaf, this might help you decide on a BEV or PHEV

To be honest the first reason was increasing maintenance bills for an older vehicle with over 150,000km driven.

Secondary to this was the fuel saving, as long as we could make do with the range being conservatively <100km.

But when I saw PHEV it made me wonder if this would take away the range issue and still offer the benefits. Do PHEV have higher maintenance requirements than Plain Old Petrol Cars?

gzt: Which Leaf exactly?

Does this matter if being compared to a PHEV?

Looking at the trims available I would be prepared to look for a G if the price was right.

When car listings say that the "dash has been converted to English" do they just mean the main information dash in front of the driver? Is the centre console able to be English converted?

dunnersdude:

 

gzt: Which Leaf exactly?

 

Does this matter if being compared to a PHEV?

 

Looking at the trims available I would be prepared to look for a G if the price was right.

 

 

 

When car listings say that the "dash has been converted to English" do they just mean the main information dash in front of the driver? Is the centre console able to be English converted?

 

No, centre console remains in Japanese. Only the dash information over the steering wheel is converted.