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Nissan e-power 2022 packed up on me 3 weeks ago, E V generater , motor and 2.1 k battery are being replace.. must have cost Nissan a few ££££ . good job it was under warranty. Great vidio again
E-Power is pretty much an EV with generator. I wonder why Honda felt they needed to add an 'overdrive' gear to their system to let the ICE to drive the wheels directly at high speed. Maybe some efficiency issues driving full-electric at high speed.
I've got Note Nismo e power here in Oz, love it, it's fast, handles well & I usually get around 4.7 litres/100klms each tank of petrol. The air con is not cold enough but otherwise great car
What role does the battery play in the Nissan epower? does the engine charge the battery if car is idling? Or is the battery only for capturing regen energy/engine starts? Does the engine shutoff when idling ie. in a traffic jam? Can it be used without the engine (battery powered only) for a short amount of time? Or must the engine always be on at all times for it to move at all?
I'm no expert but lemme try to explain. The nissan epower's battery directly drives the inverter/motor. Engine turns on at a fixed rpm to charge the battery, it only turns on when the battery is low or when you floor the accelerator pedal, so there will be stretches on the highway where the engine is off, turns on for a while then goes off again. Its noticeable when the engine turns on but its not too annoying. You can think of the epower as an EV where instead of a large battery, they use a small battery+petrol generator, which saves a lot of weight. The car can be driven without the engine for a short period of time but of course the engine will turn on automatically when battery is low.
@@mra4068 it's probably around 50%, this argument don't really make sense though, 85% for electric cars needs to include the battery weight, furthermore if electricity is generated by coal then efficiency drops further doesnt it
@@daniel1233you are forgetting about the important Regen braking. So in town urban driving stop start you don't use the brakes when on e-Power. That also charges bty & the engine runs less.
Please make a review of Honda E:HEV transmission that they use on recent 2020+ Jazz (Fit for japanese), hr-v (vezel for japanese), and cr-v probably. Their tech presentations transmit the message that "E:HEV is the EPower with the high-speed 10k+rpm for electric motor problem solved". They did it by adding at least one clutch to drive the wheels directly from ICE, something that Mitsu Outlander PHEV also have for years. But I guess the devil hides in details. EDIT: found your Vezel review :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1h4JFMJghvE.html Still don't understand how this compares in real-live usage and robustness with the "ICE completely decoupled from wheels" as in EPower.
Tried to find another way to contact you but couldn't. Hope you might provide some insight. I have a 2012 Camry Hybrid with 231K, all original. Had P0A80 message appear. Disconnected 12V, reconnect, and car ran fine for 1 week. Got message again last night. Hybrid battery shows 2 purple bars before disconnecting 12V. Reconnect this morning, start up, and hybrid battery shows almost full charge and drives normally to work. Is my hybrid battery actually failing, or is it whatever monitors the hybrid battery? I put 600 miles on the car this weekend and it functioned fine, although my MPG may be 1-2 mpg lower overall.
I saw a Spanish RU-vid he mentions that between 6 to 9 km/lL, depends on the altitude and if you drive at city or highway. The comment above that mentions his Nissan leaf had above 20km/l might be due to in Japan they are using smaller motors than in Europe
