Nissan Leaf Battery Degradation

Our 62 kWh Nissan Leaf is 3 years old, but how far has the battery degraded?
#nissanleaf #electriccars #EV

This EV is 3 years old and has travelled over 50,000 km's, but how has the battery held up?
We utilised "Leaf Spy Pro" on the iPhone (also available on android), to checkout the battery.
Is it still healthy? A lot of people believe EV batteries "Die" after 2 or 3 years.
Let's find out ????

🎥 Originally filmed back in Autumn 2022

⚠️ Also take note, this is an old generation Lithium Ion Battery, not really manufactured in great quantities anymore.

LFP or Lithium Ion Phosphate are the latest generation batteries utilised by BYD and Tesla, the two biggest EV makers in the world

And these LFP batteries have even less battery degradation of time.

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▶ OBD2 Dongle: search in ebay for a "Vgate OBD2 II WiFi" dongle. The one with the orange band around it. Costs around $40 AUD or $30 USD

▶Leafspy Pro is the app available in Android and Apple stores

📺 Here is a good tutorial:

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▶ If you are interested in importing through a broker in Australia (Save between $5,000-$10,000)
Call either of these top 3 Aussie importers, I cannot split them apart. All have over 20 years
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OR

▶ If importing is too daunting for you, there are many Japanese car dealers
around Australia. (you will pay a bit extra, $5,000-$10,000)

OR

▶ For a new vehicle, The 62kWh and 40kWh are already available.

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▶ EVSE

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Call or txt Ben 0468 455 494

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[effie]

I have a 2019 40kw with 60, 000 miles. Full 12 bars still, driven in Bay Area, CA. Zero issues, summers are 75-95F and Winter as low as 50F on average.

I have dc charged over 30 times, I usually charge to 100% every night on level 2.

I have drained the battery down to 5% maybe two or three times. No issues.

[boyasaka]

Glad you had the sense of buying a 1 year old car compared to brand new

Can’t understand anyone who buys a brand new car

[williamhurst]

I have a 2019 Leaf SL + with 28, 000 miles on it. As of this date it shows no battery degradation. I normally follow the 20-80% guideline for charging, and charge with a Level 2 240 Volt home supply. I rarely charge with a DC charger and it I do, I only charge enough to get back to L2 home charger. I live about 100 miles SW of Atlanta, Georgia, USA and climate here is moderate/perfect for EV charging.

[danielleung]

I checked the SoH every year for my 2018 40KW leaf. It is about 1.5%-2% degraded every year. I am not using DC charger very much. I am using 110v to charge my leaf most. I still have 88.29% SoH this year 2024

[ElectricCarAustralia]

Great to see the Leaf still doing those pollution free miles with very little battery degradation. 🔋👍☀️🌏

[filipealexandresousa]

The thing about active cooling is that we have no real proof, or a study done under controlled conditions involving leafs with active cooling and with no active cooling, or any study for other ev's that are supporting that active cooling in their batteries, which could solve the issue once and for all. Does active cooling protect more the batteries or not? I think that there are other explanations as to the causes of degradation. And, one more thing, out of all ev's, the leaf is the more transparent. The competition does not give us battery capacity gauges or temperature gauges for that matter. So, in my opinion as a layman, is that high temperature is what ruins a battery. And nothing can counteract high temperatures when a battery is subjected to an intense amount of heating.

[paultan]

Thanks for the video. I have a ze1 40kw. Soh 89% at 32k km. That's with me really babying the battery, soc usually between 30-70%. Rarely charged to 100% or below 10%. DC charged only 6 times. I think the chemistry is the main issue not necessarily the thermal management. I live in nz, winter about 10degrees summer under 30.

[jockmoron]

Useful little video. Reassuring for those with this model of Leaf. I have a 40kWh Leaf, and there's been a massive reduction on new Leafs here in NZ, with the 59kWh car now just $39, 000. These are UK assembled, and are very well equipped. I'm tempted to swap, as I really like the car, but we'll see. The 59kWh model could deteriorate to 75% and still have longer range than mine.

[mspalmboy]

A great review of your battery. Thank you.

[RichardStefanits]

Now run it down to about 30 percent, get to a hilly area, start screen recording on the iPhone, then push it hard uphill, that'll tell you the real condition of the battery (keep an eye on the voltage difference of the cells) do that for 5-6kms and that will show you how your battery health is looking like. Btw the 62 packs are the least trashy on the leaf, it has some cooling, others are just cells in a tin can and literally cab fry without thermal management...

[robertmarsh]

Interesting, thanks.

One question: why assume thst the person buying the car next needs less range? This seems to be an urban myth perpetuated by auto companies. Outside of required long distance usage as part of a job (hence being company car) just because someone doesn't have the money to buy a newer car it doesn't follow that they travel less miles per day.

[DonBarthel]

My 2020 LEAF Plus has the same amount of degradation (~92 1/2%) but it's only two years old and has been driven about 1/3 the distance. I'm really hoping the degradation starts to slow.

[melllvar]

You mentioned 56 kw of usable battery out of 62 kw to protect it. Does that mean that it's ok to charge it to 100%?

[raycarlson]

Thank you for the video. However you showed an example of a battery with an out of balance of 312mV; the comment you made about this is drowned out by the sound. I would be interested what you said as I have a cell in a similar condition (weak cell) on my Leaf. Please what did you say? My battery state of health is 93%! the car is a 2017 30 kWh Tekna and 27, 000km.

[cdbuiles]

battery is holding up pretty good. considering battery chemistry of 1st gen. It would be even more useful for others Leaf owners such as myself to know a bit for of the environment this car is normally running. what’s the max, min, and avg temperature you have it exposed to ? Do you charge all the way to 100% or do you keep it in the healthy zone (20 to 80%). thanks for sharing

[stephenward]

I've been watching technical videos on the Plug Life TV eg and he advocates for taking the battery to 100% routinely. Not sure whether to do this for my older 2016 AZE0

[RyanMcWhinney]

Thanks for the video. We have a 2018 40kw leaf with 95k km. When looking at the battery capacity on the dash, it is still at full bars on the dash. How is that possible?

[tzeimet]

Degradation is definitely better than the original leaf, but definitely not all that great by today's standards even for small cars. For example my Peugeot e-208

50kWh (46kWh usable)

* 92, 000km
* 93.5% State of Health (6.5% degradation)
* DC Fast Charged circa. 100 times

[TheComputerGuyDR]

Audio seems off on this version. Checked other youtube videos and they seem ok. Music really loud and his voice is extremely low.
Just a heads up :)

[aneeshzutshi]

Missing your videos. How is the battery degredation of the 2 leafs, can you share leafspy reports?