Amazing how you grew from trying to upgrade your nissan leaf in a small garage into a viable battery upgrading company, one of the best in the EU. You motivated others and cap off to you guys. Determined and focused.
That battery pack is glorious! Glad to hear everyone is healthy in your shop and congratulations on the ever increasing number of conversions. Always look forward to your updates!
hi Claire, if you would like to have a campervan electrically powered, please let me know. Together with Muxsan Kazoo Campers intends to convert a couple of those e-NV200's into camper vans. Right after that the e-Sprinter might become an option. Hope to hear from you, best regards, Erwin
my 2014 ENV is only 24kw , but I regularly use her to do 400 miles in one trip.....a bit of charger planning , some patience and plenty of coffee , no worries at all ...love it....
The Nissan Leave 1 is a nice car with a battery problem. If you can replace the battery by yourself it's perfect. But if you will let replace from Nissan you have lost!
Hi. I would like to know if possible where do you get that baterie modules and what the specs from one module. Thanks. I have been seen your videos and progress, i must say you doing well. Very good work.
Awesome stuff!!! I am thinking about building an electric MC. So I'm guessing I can fit around 10kWh or some more before it gets to heavy. What sized CCS onboard charger is there to buy with small form factor? And what rate of charge could it be (how long is the rope, I know). Keep at it!!
You're not talking about CCS I think, I think you mean an AC (type 2) charger. Take a look at TC charger, we use them for three phase charging. With a small battery like that, you shouldn't charge at a fast charger, you're limited to approx. 15-20kW
Regarding your upgraded Leaf being okay-ish, how about the infotainment unit (center console unit). If I recall correctly, you once talked about planning to replace it. Is that still the plan?
Yes, but it's a lower priority project now - mainly because I ran into issues changing CAD programs. It's a lot of very finicky modeling to get a nicely fitting center console cover that also mounts correctly. Also after the mechanical bits, I still need to figure out cabling and some interface stuff for the A/C and rear view camera.
@@PowerElectronicsBlog Oké cool to see that it's at least still in the works. For work I do CAD design on a daily basis (work with Autodesk Inventor), I can probably help if you want. Also I designed a 3D printed phone holder bracket which I mounted to the center console by removing the airbag warning light in the center console. I can share it if you're interested, some viewers might like it. Don't want to push anything. :) Keep up the good work
I've been meaning to ask this last night.. I've been offered a full 80kw battery pack from a tesla. How compatible are the battery packs with the Nissan env?
hey just wondering if you could install and connect custom solar roof panels to further extend the range?would that make sense for a big car like env200 instead of expensive batteries like an alternative option.
Amazing job, boys. Finally it has a CCS charging and probably better handling in corners. However, this weighs a lot and consumption goes a bit higher. I can't still believe the 500 km range. Maybe in 50 km/h.
Check his previous videos, he did a test at motorway speeds with this battery. Not sure that do you mean better handling in corners? It's a van, not a car. I have 3rd party alloys on mine and it's like sticked to tarmac. Consumption isn't much changed at cruise speeds on motorways. 133k mile, from new, e-NV200 owner here. Just to add, mine has SoH of 77%, and at 50km/h I still can get 120-130km of range, so do you maths over your negativity please, before commenting nonsense
We've now tried out the range on 2 weekend drives. First weekend we drove it 330km and had about 100 left. Second we started at ~80%, drove almost 300km, charged 6kWh and arrived with 25%. I'd say a realistic mixed-use range is 450km now. Just highways or high speed, it can get as low as 300km.
@@vladzis The Zoe I use with a 41kwh battery does about 22kwh/100km on the highway, I don't think it's overly negative to extrapolate that the overall consumption for the env would be a little higher. Small edit: a Peugeot partner electric I tried was higher, around 24kwh/100km on highway I guess flatter ground in the Netherlands with better weather and lower speed limits help compared to here, I'm glad to see that Powerelecyronics gets decent range and with ccs it'll be a crazy van.
does the chademo charging still work? and does it charge at the same power? or can you make it charge more range per hour because of the upgraded battery?
I’m still interested in upgrading our C-Zero batteries -> will result in swapping the battery pack with a larger battery capacity due to the lack of trunk space.
Probably something we'll be trying out this year still. The Outlander, Partner, i-Miev, C-Zero, iOn, e-Berlingo, they all share a bunch of drivetrain components. I don't think we will have an actual product to sell, but definitely one or two prototypes driving around
@@PowerElectronicsBlog Would be interested to see if you can offer an alternative for the LEV50's which are currently installed in the i-Miev. If you need the car for a day research please let me know.
Man I wish I could get one of these vans. With a large usable battery pack. And add a CC's charger for fast charging. And for long trips and the extra room for 8 passengers.
There is a big queue of us waiting. For me the env200 is a little bit too small. The e-VITO size is about right, or a master, but then you need a lot of battery and a fuck-off charger to fill it up in s sensible period of time, which all costs money. And SFAIK no-one is doing the reverse-enginering for those platforms that Muxsan has done for the Nissan stuff. I could, given enough time, and it might come to that one day, but I have a house to fix first so I'm waiting to see if anyone actually makes something commercial. Rivian platform, buzz, transporter/vito battery upgrades.
Yep, working on that very soon (tm), the only reason they don't exist yet is because of our big milling machine being busy and currently broken down. I have models for rear skirts already.
We would too! But that's not allowed, plexiglass is mighty flammable and reacts with battery solvents. We're going to put a sticker on or something like that.
Happy to hear you Guys are doing good in this Coronavirus time!!! For what we know you are the best in Nissan Extended Range Worldwide. Please let us know when you are opening an office or some kind of partnership in the United States, Central Florida. There's a group of us looking for a solution. Best regards
Nope, as far as they're concerned it's just cargo. We've had confirmation from two dozen customers so far that nobody even saw the modifications on the APK.
@@Simon-dm8zv First off, I should note that there ARE rules to be followed (quite stringent ones as well, e.g. UN/ECE 100 and IEC 6469-1), which all our products are designed for. And yes, we're going to install our first under-vehicle battery (on an e-NV200 EVALIA) on July 9th, so around then we'll be evaluating whether we're going to make that a standard product and of course making a video about it.
PowerElectronicsBlog An under-vehicle extension battery for the e-NV200 sounds like a perfect product. Looking forward to your progress on this. Great work 👍🏻
@@PowerElectronicsBlog Want to see this! what size extension you are planning under-vehicle? i have 40kw evalia and something about 20-24kw extra would make this car almost perfect!
Why not put the battery pack to the driver divider wall and build a wall-like brick model on top and sides of each other? That would sound more like space saving for me and might not cause too much weight imbalance.
If you do this for Toyota Priuses and Chevy Volts as if you did with Nissan Leafs, I am sure Toyota, Nissan and GM love to have them for their future electric cars.
Would a JDM Env200 not be better for you as it already has fast charging? Also why aren't van manufacturers coming out with bigger battery pack? I mean 80km on a brand new E-veto..... please
It's got fast charging, it's just that it's 50kW chademo (so in practice: 38-44kW). That's very slow if your battery is around 80kWh, so it needs faster charging. Chademo isn't getting upgraded much in the near future, so we're adding 175kW CCS.
Water cooling isn't the problem, it's the physical size of Tesla batteries. Also... Tesla batteries aren't actually that good.... (I'm sure I'll get into the technicals of that someday)
Vector VCCU ftw. We're using them as well at work, only our batteries are slightly bigger (+350kWh :) ). Still sad we sold our leaf just before the conversion became available :(
This might interest you! Tesla Hacker Highlights Major Issue (This guy is modding a large van with an entire Tesla Model 3 Guts!) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o-7b1waoj9Q.html Also Norway might have some cheap salvage Tesla parts maybe?
Two hours to charge ,that's if the charging station is free,5 mins to fill my car ,to allow for some of my journeys add at least 2 hours to my journey time.
Ray Chambers it’s not for everyone. But if you charge at home or work, for commutes there is no “fill up” time so those more frequent fuel stops at 5 minutes a piece start to add up.
@@ALMX5DP you are right it's not for everyone but filling up petrol or diesel really doesn't take that much time in total. Once a week at 5mins a pop is still only 4.3hours in a year. A 30mins fast charge once a month is already 6 hours...
@@TsLeng absolutely, but just shows that as a commuter vehicle with occasional fast charging trips, it can still be somewhat competitive in terms of total time spent per year in "filling up."
