Winter driving with Nissan LEAF 

What??? Huh?? !! now you tell me??!! ARGH and I was slip sliding all over the place. All I need to do was put it into eco mode?.... Okay there will always be another winter... (well Global warming may change that)

Ron Black I second that :) B MODE this winter gave my car a superior advantage in even cutting highway curves at marginally higher speeds than your average Ford.

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But which would you rather have range or have 0c cabin.. I'll compromise bro :-)

the older nissan leafs use an electric element (space heater) system, not a heat pump. this chews through power like crazy literally consuming about 1kwh or 5% of the entire vehicles power.

@@cageybee7221 what year leaf has the heat pump ? im looking at purchasing electric.....1 have less than $10k

@@matthewzizzo4586 for 2020 it was part of the all weather package. I think it might be standard in 2021 because I haven’t been able to find that package building a new 2021, but I haven’t looked to see if it is actually standard.

@@matthewzizzo4586 If I recall correctly starting in 2013 it's standard and only available on the SV and SL trims and starting with the 2018 I believe it's an option on the base (S) trim.

you can try to used plug in hybrid, you can start the car to charge the battery and warm your car at the same time. Save money.

Um... I don't know if 40% of lost range is correct. It is probably less than that. Also if the car is plugged in over night, then the car may end up recharging whatever energy is lost due to the cold if it is not restricted to timed charging while plugged in.

There is an automatic heating system inside the Nissan battery pack, that starts at -17C and stops at -14 C , because at -17 C the battery pack will freeze, handy if you don't have a garage,... but the heating ' will not start if the battery pack has not enough power about 14%. Bottom line can leave the car to charge at the home/station plug at night.

Yes, the winter weather didn’t last for long, after shooting the pictures. Now we had a record warm new year this and not a single bit of snow left. The weather is kind of upside down now a days.

The Nissan LEAF do not have any heating of the battery, but other EV-cars have like Tesla.

@@myelectricearth896 thank you for the reply! I will have to look into how this effects battery life, but range is not a big issue for me. So it is not a huge detractor unless the cold leads to the battery extremely degraded, like less than 60 mile range.

@@myelectricearth896 I really like your voice and deliberate speach, so I hope you are not pained by other people's judgement.

I don´t know now a days how it works with the App, Nissan and connecting it to a used car. I was using the predecessor App to NissanConect EV. On top of this the car needs to have the connectivity to the internet and that was free during the time that I had the car. When it comes to older cars you probably have to pay for it. Nissan have this site whare you can find out more about this matter: www.nissan.co.uk/ownership/nissan-connect-services-apps.html

Yes, the heat pump in the Leaf from 2015 that I had was relay efficient. Now I am back using standard heating elements in My Tesla model 3, but since the battery is so huge comparing to the leaf it is not a big issue unless you need to go very far in cold weather. I loved the leaf but unfortunately Nissan did not take care of it EV customers very well, and I gave up the brand. Now I had my Tesla for almost one year and I am happy with this car too, If you are interested you can watch a summary of my EV experience form last year: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-J4QBPfQYiMs.html Thanks..

@@myelectricearth896 That's interesting, you'd think they could of made it an option! 23F here today and the heated seats and steering wheel seem to be just fine.

There is a drop, but there is so many factors to way in so it is difficult to say what of the factors that is reducing the range and how much. My experience was that speed, wind and wet roads was factors where you really noticed the decrease of the range.

During the 2 years of owning the car I had only one time a slight problem caused by ice and snow when trying to open the charging port. I had more problem with this in my ICE car earlier having the fuel cap frozen when trying to fill the car with fuel.

I had this problem once. We parked it facing the sun one shopping trip, and it fixed it.

Grate :-) but this is the true! Even now a days when the range issue is not so big problem since todays electric cars have so huge battery's and can drive so far without stopping for chagrining.

There is radio in the car.

You were looking at his gas car example.

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Hybrids are fence sitters.

Mark Plain lol

Omesh Abeysekera i got a daily commute at ~50 km and 5-6 trips per month above 200 km (with round trips being 400+ km). this might not be very common but it's the scenario i live with and it makes a car like the chevy volt the ideal option for me unless i could somehow afford a full-electric with an 600 km battery (assuming i charge on the longer work-related trips)

The resistive heating takes longer? I didn't expect that. How long does it take?

@@patientestant perhaps my 2012 has a bad heater but seems to not even come one for at least 3 mins at the least. I turn it on and the heater seems to be thinking, just sits there with the blower not even on the first bar. The heat pump in 2013s are almost instant I've heard.

@@JacanaProductions oh, three minutes is not bad. I would expect the electric to be quicker from my limited understanding, but i don't know the sizing and what not. You could get it checked, but it probably isn't worth it. Might have something blocking it or an element is out. A lot better than my old truck. I am so excited to get an electric car someday.

@@JacanaProductions oh. You might not have an accurate time for the heat pump. "Near instant" isn't a measurement and could mean something different from what you're expecting. Maybe the heat pump is over hyped. Those are just some speculations.

Of coerce there is places in the world that have much coder temperate during the winter then we have in this part of Scandinavia whew I live where the temperature very seldom gets colder then -15C. But the is also a lot of places where this kind of problem is not known.

You're talking degrees celcius (metric), -45, and costco.... you must be in my part of the world. I found that the without "warmed up" fluid, my wipers 'push' the ice off the windshield.

I have a garage to put the car in, but this time I put the car outside just for the purpose of this video, and show that you can preheat the car form the app making it easy to remove the snow.

Great👍👍👍 I still choose the car cover that covers the whole car, so the car hasn't got direct contact with snow and especially with ice or thick layer of ice which is very common in this part of Europe...

:-)

Well the speed limit is a maximum limit, not a minimum limit. When you need to extend your range (say, to get home) when there are no chargers (or petrol/diesel stations) on the way, it makes sense to reduce your speed. EV drivers are more likely to be struggling to find a charger than petrol/diesel drivers to find a filling station, that is until there are more chargers than filling stations! Of course there are other road users who need to drive slowly (buses, tractors, cyclists, horses, heavy haulage etc.). We all need some patience and to drive responsibly and considerately, maybe pull over into a lay-by if we are causing a tail-back of traffic. But we don't need to be pressured into driving fast by the persistently late and the terminally speedy!

In Germany it's illegal to drive slow without a reason. So if the road is clear and visibility is good you have to drive fast.

Interesting - "you have to drive fast" does that mean in Germany you must drive precisely at the speed limit in good conditions? Or is there some leeway? What about road users who can not drive fast enough (buses, tractors, cyclists, horses, heavy haulage etc.)? "Without a reason" - would an acceptable reason include improving your fuel economy, minimising damage to the environment or making it to the next charger/filling station?

It seems they have a similar law in the USA seems rather daft to me.

Except for the large amount if torque at low rpm, weight distribution, regenerative braking, and probably more than that.

I do not have my LEAF any more. It was just a leas. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RDQrtCbx4I4.html Now I have the Tesla model 3.

But the point is that it did not suck. Yes, it is less range, but the not so much as people like to think. But the LEAF, 24 kWh battery was making the range limited on other had today most of electric cars has lager battery’s and longer range. Regarding my so called story telling voice, this is how I do it, some purple love it, some don´t care and some like you hate it. We all have different preferences, isn’t that great! But I am doing these moves mostly to satisfy myself, spreading my personal thoughts about my experience need me speaking in the way I do it, and if someone enjoy my moves, I am happy!

I wonder if god really bless the combustion engine? It is such a waste of energy and it is polluting so much. See: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S-THgjINumE.html

No I am not mention this because it is simply not true. In the earlier version of the LEAF that statement could be valid since this had an electric heat element resistance to generate heat, but with this version that I use in this episode it is replaced with an match more efficient electric heat pump that is not impacting the range so much. Even Tesla has the heat pump in all there models now a days. But in Tesla:s case the battery is any way so large so even a cold day you have a really long range comparing to the Nissan Leaf’s small battery. In the combustion engine you are constantly getting cheated by heating the engine to extreme temperatures, and only getting use of it really cold days. I explained this in one of my latest episodes: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Vxrcv2vWHss.html

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Its just you

In Sweden, we are used to snow and winter, and there are not many 4 wheels’ cars out the on the roads. It is slippery, and there are accidents but the road is cleaned and deiced with different methods so a front wheel car with winter tire is mostly enough. Although not showed in this move since it takes some time before the come and shuffle the rods in the aria whew I shout the move.

I had no problems with my Leaf in the snow this winter and have fond memories of driving my '90 Civic SI to the ski hill.

Hey we had some serious snow fall (about 30 cms) and I got by just as well as any 4x4 that was on the road.

I have lived in "snow" countries all my life and I have had, 4x4, FWD and RWD cars. 4x4 is nice in the winter but absolutely not necessary. If you know what you are doing and use some common sense you don't need 4x4.

It's much more important to have proper winter tires than 4wd.

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HOLY SHIT this annoyed me like hell!

You Are mean, ITS because he is swedish

Lol Hei Well swedish can and know how to speak english normally. That ain't normal...

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. I like it

Mike Perkins You would have to be an Aussie to use that c word, am i correct? Most nationalities wouldn't understand it.