Kim
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Post by Kim on Sept 14, 2019 11:28:45 GMT 11
There are 7 of them!
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Kim
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Post by Kim on Sept 14, 2019 11:35:35 GMT 11
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Kim
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Post by Kim on Sept 14, 2019 13:11:19 GMT 11
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Post by alison on Sept 15, 2019 7:55:57 GMT 11
Makes sense - I've seen these driving previously, but saw a new 2019 leaf with their branding last week. Fleet upgrade!
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Post by coulomb on Sept 15, 2019 10:13:58 GMT 11
One I looked at (on the web page, not in person) had quite low kilometres, and Sydney's climate is average (not badly unkind to battery longevity).
But against that you have to balance clueless drivers that don't own the vehicle, and so have no reason to look after it.
Overall, if you get a good price, these could be pretty good for an EV noob looking for a bargain. Service date would be some time in 2013, guessing by press publicity at that time.
Edit: but I hadn't looked at the battery SOH bars, sigh. Perhaps not such good value.
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Post by stripey on Sept 19, 2019 15:46:45 GMT 11
The rest all have pictures now. The batteries on these are all terrible. No idea how they've managed to wear them out so badly with such low kms. Did they let them fully discharge and sit for a couple of years?
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Post by Feng on Sept 19, 2019 16:06:48 GMT 11
My guess is they left them fully charged all the time so they can drive them when needed. Must have been a very low care factor.
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Post by Hermster on Sept 19, 2019 17:29:10 GMT 11
What is the likelihood of claiming warranty from Nissan? If we were need to replace the battery
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Post by stewartm on Sept 20, 2019 13:17:52 GMT 11
About the same as winning lotto I would guess..
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Post by stripey on Sept 26, 2019 11:26:40 GMT 11
My guess is they left them fully charged all the time so they can drive them when needed. Must have been a very low care factor. I have an ex-ACT Government Leaf that had exactly that done to it (no charge times set, and I had their employee instruction book that didn't mention anything about charging to 80%) and it still has 10 bars, and Canberra gets way hotter than Sydney during summer, though maybe the cool winter months helped to preserve the battery more than the heat killed it?
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Post by rusdy on Sept 26, 2019 11:49:22 GMT 11
...though maybe the cool winter months helped to preserve the battery more than the heat killed it? Unfortunately the cool winter is irrelevant if the battery is already exposed to heat, especially at high charged state. According to prof Jeff Dahn, the time spent at elevated temperature (and high state of charge) kills the battery more than the many cycles. Excerpt (if you can't be bothered listening to the 1-hour lecture ) from here : " There are basically two main factors that speed up the inevitable death of your battery:
High temperatures
Increased time spent at high voltages (i.e. high charge level)"
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Post by stripey on Oct 2, 2019 19:20:40 GMT 11
Well, we have two sets of government fleet vehicles both presumably left sitting at 100% SOC the majority of the time for the last 6 or 7 years, both manufactured at about the same time with the same chemistry, and one set is in a more temperate climate, and one in a climate that gets both hotter and cooler, and the more temperate ones seem to have fared worse.
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Post by stripey on Oct 4, 2019 23:52:24 GMT 11
I'm not sure if it's the same leafs or different ones, but more going up for auction over the next two weeks. One is listed at a fixed priced of $13850 which is the cheapest I've seen advertised.
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