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Nissan Leaf: Fear the Turtle
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:59 am
by zaxrex
...Although the details in the complaints on the MyNissanLeaf forum differ, the common thread in each is the Leaf suddenly paring back the estimates of its range in the middle of a trip, ending in a brief "turtle" mode — marked by an orange turtle icon on the Leaf's dash — followed by the car shutting down to prevent battery damage....
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It'll Leaf you stranded?
Re: Nissan Leaf: Fear the Turtle
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 12:51 pm
by PGT
egads. I'd really like something like this.....makes a lot of sense for my daily grind. something a bit more fun, like a Fisker could convince me to not have two cars though
Re: Nissan Leaf: Fear the Turtle
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 2:33 pm
by complacent
half-baked.
clearly not ready to replace petrol.
Re: Nissan Leaf: Fear the Turtle
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 2:33 pm
by Sabre
A good point brought up is that cold weather will effect these cars dramatically. Why they didn't put a heater on the batteries like the rest of the cars out there, I do not know...
Re: Nissan Leaf: Fear the Turtle
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:02 am
by Mr Kleen
I had a different comment but after reading the article (instead of skimming)...
Re: Nissan Leaf: Fear the Turtle
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:48 pm
by thermatico
Sabre wrote:A good point brought up is that cold weather will effect these cars dramatically. Why they didn't put a heater on the batteries like the rest of the cars out there, I do not know...
If you lose more power running the heaters than you get back from the batteries be warm, it's probably not worth it.
Re: Nissan Leaf: Fear the Turtle
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:17 pm
by Mr Kleen
That's exactly what I thought, then I read the article and it mentioned that other companies' hybrid vehicles use battery heaters for cold weather range.
Re: Nissan Leaf: Fear the Turtle
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:35 pm
by thermatico
Mr Kleen wrote:That's exactly what I thought, then I read the article and it mentioned that other companies' hybrid vehicles use battery heaters for cold weather range.
True, but the leaf is pure electric. In the hybrids, you've got gasoline to cover the spread.
Re: Nissan Leaf: Fear the Turtle
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:36 pm
by Sabre
Good point, that could very well be. I had honestly thought that they would only use the heaters while it was charging in cold weather, so it would pull the power it needed from the socket. LOL, if they were using the batteries... the heaters might not work if they can't get enough juice out of the them. haha