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Nice. I'm pretty sure it's fast charging that is more detrimental to the battery life. The included charge cable that charges from a regular home socket charge

Nice. I'm pretty sure it's fast charging that is more detrimental to the battery life. The included charge cable that charges from a regular home socket charges at 3.3kw, which is the max you can do with the type1 socket on the car even if you use a dedicated home charge point (unless your particular car has the optional 6.6kw onboard unit upgrade). My charge point can deliver 7kw, but the car limits it to 3.3kw. The ChaDeMo socket can charge much faster (50kw I think?), But you aren't easily going to do that at home.

zackmorris 5y ago
Wow that's cool, I didn't know chargers could deliver that kind of power. 7 kW is about 10 hp, 5 space heaters, 2 ovens or dryers, anyway it's a lot. 50 kW would charge my car in a half an hour if the batteries could handle it! My Leaf doesn't have the optional 480 V charging port, to anyone reading this who might be interested in the Level 3 fast charging. I hadn't researched it yet, but that's a CHAdeMO port, thanks for mentioning that, this article claims a 40 minute charge to 80% on a 40 kWh Leaf: https://www.davidaltmejd.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-charge-a-nissan-leaf/#Charging_Your_Nissan_Leaf_in_Stations_Level_3_Or_DC_Fast_Charging https://www.davidaltmejd.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-charge... 55 kW @ 480 V DC would be 115 A and can go up to 400 A or 192 kW (258 hp)! I also realized that I left out the detail that my car has about 60,000 miles. I test drove almost the same model from the same year with 90,000 miles and from what I could tell, it performed the same. Batteries today are so much better than when they were first used in laptops in the late 2000s and only got 300 cycles. Li-ion batteries today are getting more in the 4,000-40,000 (in the lab) cycle range. Oh! Another details is that my Leaf was $7900 + ~$1000 taxes and fees or $8900 total. They were about $6900 right before the pandemic. The dealers don't really understand how well batteries hold up, and demand is low in flyover states like mine. But word is getting out, and I think that when people are powering their home off their electric Ford F-150, demand is going to rise substantially even for older used electrics.

zackmorris 5y ago

Wow that's cool, I didn't know chargers could deliver that kind of power. 7 kW is about 10 hp, 5 space heaters, 2 ovens or dryers, anyway it's a lot. 50 kW would charge my car in a half an hour if the batteries could handle it! My Leaf doesn't have the optional 480 V charging port, to anyone reading this who might be interested in the Level 3 fast charging. I hadn't researched it yet, but that's a CHAdeMO port, thanks for mentioning that, this article claims a 40 minute charge to 80% on a 40 kWh Leaf: https://www.davidaltmejd.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-charge-a-nissan-leaf/#Charging_Your_Nissan_Leaf_in_Stations_Level_3_Or_DC_Fast_Charging https://www.davidaltmejd.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-charge... 55 kW @ 480 V DC would be 115 A and can go up to 400 A or 192 kW (258 hp)! I also realized that I left out the detail that my car has about 60,000 miles. I test drove almost the same model from the same year with 90,000 miles and from what I could tell, it performed the same. Batteries today are so much better than when they were first used in laptops in the late 2000s and only got 300 cycles. Li-ion batteries today are getting more in the 4,000-40,000 (in the lab) cycle range. Oh! Another details is that my Leaf was $7900 + ~$1000 taxes and fees or $8900 total. They were about $6900 right before the pandemic. The dealers don't really understand how well batteries hold up, and demand is low in flyover states like mine. But word is getting out, and I think that when people are powering their home off their electric Ford F-150, demand is going to rise substantially even for older used electrics.