Comment by api
2 days ago
Degrade to what extent? I have a 12 year old Nissan Leaf that's lost maybe 25% of its range. Still absolutely usable as a neighborhood car.
2 days ago
Degrade to what extent? I have a 12 year old Nissan Leaf that's lost maybe 25% of its range. Still absolutely usable as a neighborhood car.
A 2013 Nissan Leaf should get 60-75 miles of range (depending on how much of thebattery you use, as well as climate, and other driving conditions). If it got ~80 miles new, it would still get 60 miles now. That might be enough for someone to make a short commute, though unless they have relatively fast charging at home, a 20+ mile commute 5 days a week might be tough to pull off. But most errands would fall well within the existing / remaining range.
50 mile round trip at 3 miles per kWh would be under 20kWh, or 1.6kW for 12 hours, about the same as a plug in heater on max, easily doable in a normal socket let alone a dedicated charge circuit.
I think most testing uses 80% capacity as the cutoff point. Largely because that's when the loss in capacity really slows down.
> neighborhood car
Not familiar with that term, what does it mean? Shared ride? A car for walking distances?
I think they mean "city car" as opposed to "road trip car" or "rural car."
Going to work, groceries and so on, the regular stuff.
If the city was walkable, you would not need such a thing as neighborhood car, you could just use a bike, but apparently as a society at many places we have decided that the cars are the best mode of transportation ever.
An electric wheelchair.
If it has moved like 250K km then it is impressive.