EV Zero
EV Zero
Today I purchased a used 2013 Nissan Leaf! The original car had a 24Kw battery, but I was able to get a upgraded 30kw battery from a 2016 Nissan Leaf - from EV Rides (used, but still has over 76% SOH (State of Health), which will have almost 100 miles range on a fully charge battery. My work commute is about 25 miles round trip, so this should work fine as a 'second' car.
The models years 2013-2015 did not have much difference, so getting a 2013 is a good choice to save a bit of money. I'm excited to learn all about the Nissan Leaf and EV driving!
Leaf Spy:
Of course one of the first things is to get a Bluetooth ODB2 plug to connect the 'LeafSpy' phone app. This will help track the battery life and usage of the power during driving.
- Battery amp hours (AHr)
- Battery State of Health i.e. remaining Battery capacity when fully charged (as a %)
- The Hx value, which is your battery’s resistance to accepting charge
- The number of Rapid charges (called ‘QC’ by the app) in the life of the battery so far. It is in the second line of the screen you land on when you first open LeafSpy.
- The number of slow charges (called L1 and L2 by the app) in the life of the battery so far. It is just to the right of the QC Count.
- The spread of your cell voltages (mV)
- The first temperature value (bottom row) in degrees , and lastly
- The current State of Charge (SOC) to put some of the above data into context
